[87410] MON 08/11/97 13:54 FROM UNICORE@UNICODE.ORG: UTC #73 & L2 #170 - action items from joint meeting; 168 LINES Received: by rlg.org; Mon, 11 Aug 97 13:54:44 PDT Received: from unicode.org (unicode2.apple.com [17.254.3.212]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA36254; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:37:32 -0700 Received: by unicode.org (NX5.67g/NX3.0S) id AA12743; Mon, 11 Aug 97 13:26:53 -0700 Message-Id: <9708112026.AA12743@unicode.org> Errors-To: uni-bounce@unicode.org X-Uml-Sequence: 1061 (1997-08-11 20:26:51 GMT) To: Multiple Recipients of Unicore Reply-To: unicore@unicode.org From: "Joan Aliprand" Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:26:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: UTC #73 & L2 #170 - action items from joint meeting These are the action items from the joint UTC/L2 meeting, Aug. 4-5. (Action items from the L2 meeting on Aug. 6 have not yet been added.) Please scan this list for tasks with your name attached. If there are errors, please notify Arnold and/or me. -- Joan Aliprand UTC Chair =========================================================================== (1) Aliprand: Check with companies that have not participated in meetings to find out why (2) McGowan: Ask Bruce Paterson to review Western Music Symbols proposal (3) Winkler: Copy action items for the editorial committee onto a separate list (4) Aliprand/Winkler: Include numbered action items in the meeting minutes (5) Aliprand: Include "Property Related Errata" as standing item on agenda (6) Freytag: Put sample implementation of compression algorithm on Unicode Web site (7) Jenkins: Tell Peter Edberg that revised transcoding proposal is wanted for December meeting (8) Aliprand: Put transcoding proposal on agenda for December meeting (9) WITHDRAWN -- Winkler: Investigate alternative dates for December meeting (10) WITHDRAWN -- Moore: Determine availability of rooms for other dates in December *** Items 9-10 are withdrawn because it was later decided to retain Dec. 3-5 as the meeting dates. *** (11) McGowan/Jenkins: Reserve room at Apple for UTC/L2 meeting on February 25-27 (12) Winkler: Reserve room at Unisys for UTC/L2 meeting on April 20-22 (13) Aliprand: Send out revised meeting dates (14) All: Send comments on keyboard symbols to Freytag (15) Greenfield: Add Julie Allen to Roster (Unicode Office section) (16) All: Send detailed technical comments on Byzantine Greek Music proposal to "unicore" no later than December UTC meeting (17) Whistler and Edberg: Write a UTR on identification and structure of character sets that are important to industry (18) Whistler and others: Prepare Internet draft for Plane 14 proposal (minus source set tagging and generic tagging) (19) Adams: Draft proposal incorporating Cowan's proposal on generic tagging plus three-way split described by Adams (20) Ksar: Send dates for revision of ISO/IEC 10646 to "unicore" (21) Freytag: Prepare complete proposal for keycap cartouche and screen cartouche (to support composable (keyboard symbols) (22) Freytag: Prepare written proposal on in-line annotation characters for December meeting. Include (discussion of existing mechanisms to support ruby, warichu, etc. (23) Adams: Contribute description of use of Plane 14 tagging for in-line (24) All: Send comments to Freytag. Use "Ruby paper" as subject. (25) Jenkins: Work with Michael Everson re joint proposal for Gothic (26) Jenkins: Prepare revised proposal for Gothic (27) Jenkins: Prepare revised proposal for Etruscan (28) Jenkins: Prepare proposal for Athenian acrophonics (29) McGowan: Prepare revised proposal for Khmer, incorporating revised summary form, justification for "holes" in encoding, list of character properties (30) Adams: Advise McGowan re editorial changes for acceptance by WG2 (31) McGowan: In Khmer proposal, replace "14" by "XX" (32) McGowan: Secure a copy of the font mentioned in the summary form for the Consortium and store it for future use (33) McGowan: In Khmer proposal, strip out annotations in names (34) Adams/McGowan: Create Khmer proposal (as close to pDAM text as possible) for submission to WG2 (35) McGowan (for Living Scripts WG): Work with Michael Everson to complete proposal for Thaana, with target to return it to UTC in December (36) Adams: Contact Mr. Manaku for input on the Thaana proposal (37) McGowan: Send C source code for last known working BiDi reference application to Lloyd Honomichl *** DONE -- Available via anonymous ftp from "unicode.org" (NOT "ftp.unicode.org") as "MarkBIDI.c" in "pub" directory. *** (38) Honomichl: Create Java applet as reference implementation of BiDi algorithm (to be made available on (the Unicode Web site). Include errata from Unicode Web site. Target date: Sept. 1 (39) Bishop: Revise BiDi Property Change proposal, including "figure space" as common separator. Send to ("unicore" list, and post on Web site (include Arabic text examples as GIFs in Web version) *** DONE -- Revision posted by John McConnell at this URL: http://www.unicode.org/WorkingGroups/Bidi/RevisedBidiProposal.htm Includes "figure space" and Arabic and Hebrew examples. (40) Bishop: Schedule special meeting on BiDi. Post invitation on "unicore" list. Suggested date: just after IUC *** UNDERWAY. Moore is coordinating date & location for meeting *** (41) Freytag: Publish Compress Algorithm as UTR (42) Jenkins and others: Prepare UTC version of Plane 1 roadmap (43) Jenkins: Invite Michael Everson to participate in roadmap work (44) Jenkins: Provide infrastructure for Plane 1 roadmap work: Web space, e-mail discussion list (45) Jenkins: Post explicit instructions for uploading documents to Web site (46) All: Provide input on Banjeom character proposal (L2/97-149) to Adams before December meeting (47) Adams: Prepare recommendation on Banjeom character proposal for December meeting (48) Adams: Consult Lee Collins re Banjeom characters (49) Aliprand: Include Banjeom character proposal on agenda for December meeting (50) All: Send comments on two Latin characters [L2/97-164] to Adams (51) Goldsmith: Register "UTF-16" as designation for the Unicode Standard, Version 2.0 (52) Goldsmith: Register "UNICODE UTF-16" as alias for "UTF-16" (53) Goldsmith: Register "UNICODE UTF-8" as alias for "UTF-8" (54) Goldsmith : Withdraw registration for "UNICODE-1-1" (55) Editorial: For Version 3.0, treat UTF-8 as true part of Unicode. Document UTF-16 on similar level (56) Adams: Respond to Wolf's mail on SGML base set with proposal from Paterson re collection 300 (57) Whistler: Ask Jenkins to allocate "UTC private" section of FTP site to support work on default ordering of Unicode characters (58) Whistler: Make work on default ordering available for UTC comment (59) Winkler: Invite Alain LaBonte to special meeting on default ordering to be held on afternoon of Friday, December 5 (60) Winkler: Talk to Alain LaBonte about need to incorporate common understanding into next phase of 14561 (61) Whistler: Provide work-to-date document to Winkler for WG20 meeting (November 16-20 in Cairo) (62) Winkler/Aliprand: Add item to L2 agenda: to take US position to make output of UTC working group on default ordering as US contribution to WG20 (63) Officers: Investigate establishing the Unicode Consortium as PAS (64) Winkler: On behalf of WG20, reply to letter from Unicode Consortium dated January 22) re WG20 request to use Unicode properties. In particular, clarify mutual understanding of "verbatim" (65) Winkler: Send information about PAS application procedures to Freytag and Aliprand (for Unicode (Officers) (66) Aliprand: As UTC Chair, write to Chairs of SC2, SC18 and SC20 re Cultural Workshop. Express preference for British Columbia as site; SC2 as organizer. Copy to NCTIS. (67) Winkler/Aliprand: Include discussion of recommendation for comparable letter from L2 Chair on agenda of L2 meeting on Wednesday (L2 is TAG for two of the SCs, and worked with SC18 on the character-glyph model) *** DONE. *** (68) Adams: Send copy of document on characters and character sets to Umamaheswaran (69) Umamaheswaran: Gather questions that need to be posed re NP for character set model (70) Aliprand: Include formulation of UTC positions for IRG December meeting on agenda for December meeting (71) All Corporate Member representatives: Seek suitable candidates for Board election in December (72) Bishop: Prepare complete proposal for Burmese for December meeting (73) McGowan: Send all information on Burmese to Bishop (74) Whistler: Notify IETF participants in Plane 14 ad hoc meeting about outcome of this meeting; send them (revised Plane 14 proposal. (75) Adams: Make revised Plane 14 proposal into Internet Draft, with UTC and IETF representatives as co-authors. Arrange with Chris Newman for reformatting (76) Adams: Make revised Plane 14 proposal into joint Unicode/IETF proposal to WG2 (77) Aliprand/Winkler: Review SC2 resolutions. Include those that need discussion (e.g., M07.28) on December L2 meeting agenda To: UNICORE@UNICODE.ORG