L2/00-323


Motions of the UTC 85 / L2 182 Joint Meeting

San Diego, CA -- November 7 - 10, 2000

December 27, 2000



Language Identifiers
[85-M1] Motion: The UTC supports a revision of the IETF internet draft 1766 (language tags) to enable the registration of qualified namespace authorities for language tags. [L2/00-393]
    Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Rick McGowan

    15 for (unanimous) 

[85-M2] Motion: The UTC supports SIL, when qualified, as a namespace authority to enable standard reference to ethnologue language codes. A qualified namespace authority must agree to maintaining the catalogs with proper versioning and must not change or delete codes once introduced. [L2/00-393]
    Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Rick McGowan

    8 for (Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
    4 against (Compaq, MIT India, Oracle, Progress)
    3 abstain (Basis, Justsystem, Peoplesoft)

Character Mapping Tables
[85-M3] Motion: Advance Draft UTR#22: Character Mapping Tables to UTR#22: Unicode Character Mapping Markup Language (CharMap ML) after changing the title and incorporating comments received in the discussion . [L2/00-402]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Asmus Freytag

    12 for (Basis, Compaq, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, MIT India, NCR, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Progress, Sun, )
    2 against (Apple, Sybase)
    1 abstain (Unisys)

Case Mappings
[85-M4] Motion: Modify UTR#21: Case Mappings, making the changes given in L2/00-390 as amended in discussion, move the special casing description from the file to the TR and clarify case folding. [L2/00-390, 395, 396]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Asmus Freytag

    13 for (Basis, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, MIT India, NCR, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Progress, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    2 abstain (Apple, Compaq)

Script Names
[85-M5] Motion: Modify Draft UTR#24: Script Names, making the changes given in L2/00-379 as well as including comments received during discussion. [L2/00-368R, 379]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Sandra Martin O'Donnell

    15 for (unanimous)

UTC 84/L2 181 Minutes
[85-M5] Motion: Approve the minutes of UTC 84/L2 181 as documented in L2/00-187R.
    Moved by Sandra Martin O'Donnell, seconded by Mike Ksar

    9 for (Compaq, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    2 abstain (Apple, Sun) 

Arabic Additions
[85-M6] Motion: Accept the addition of ARABIC LETTER DOTLESS BEH at 066E and ARABIC LETTER DOTLESS QAF at 066F. [L2/00-354]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

    12 for (Apple, Compaq, Government of India, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    2 abstain (Progress, Oracle) 

WG2
[85-M7] Motion: Approve changing the Unicode Standard to align with changes to Part 1 which resulted from the WG2 meeting in Athens. These changes are documented in L2/00-369, sections 2.b-h, j, k, m, and address medieval superscript letters, miscellaneous Greek symbols, Komi Cyrillic, word joiner, German penny sign, return symbol, and katakana double hyphen, circled numbers, Philippine scripts, and Unicode sequence identifier.
    Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Asmus Freytag

    14 for (Basis, Compaq, Government of India, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Progress, Oracle, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    1 abstain (Apple) 

[85-M8] Motion: Accept the eight recycling characters as documented in L2/00-369, section 2.l at locations U+2672..U+2679.
    Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Asmus Freytag

    9 for (Basis, Compaq, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
    1 against (Progress)
    4 abstain (Apple, Government of India, Justsystem, Oracle) 

UTF-32
[85-M9] Motion: Make UTR#19: UTF-32 a Unicode Standard Annex in Unicode 3.1.
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Mike Ksar
    12 for (Basis, Compaq, Government of India, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    3 abstain (Apple, Oracle, Progress) 
[85-C1] Consensus: The Editorial Committee is directed to prepare text for incorporation into the Standard for V3.1 that clarifies the character encoding model and the relationship of the UTF-32 transformation to scalar values.
Revisions to Proplist.txt
[85-C2] Consensus: Change the range notation in the Proplist file to two dots, and make derived files separate files.

[85-M10] Motion: Adopt a new version of Proplist.txt as described in L2/00-387 as amended in discussion with an additional change to Blocks.txt to use the same range notation. Proplist.txt is now considered to be a part of the Unicode Character Database.

    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Sandra Martin O'Donnell

    14 for (Basis, Compaq, Government of India, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Progress, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    1 abstain (Apple) 

Normative Status of Character Data Properties
[85-M11] Motion: The UTC accepts making all of the General Category property and Case Mappings in Unicode Data and Special Casings Normative. [L2/00-392]
    Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Mark Davis,

    12 for
    0 against
    3 abstain 

Security Issues with UTF-8
[85-M12] Motion: Take document L2/00-414, with new wording for the Chapter 3 discussion of UTF-8, as amended during the UTC and remand to the editorial committee for producing a final version and posting on the web as a corrigendum to the Unicode Standard. A draft version will be sent to Unicore for comments before posting.
    Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Mark Davis

    12 for (Basis, Compaq, Government of India, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, Progress, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
    2 against (Apple, NCR)
    1 abstain (Oracle) 

Grapheme Joiner
[85-M13] Motion: The UTC approves a change in the encoding position of the grapheme joiner character to U+034F. [L2/00-369]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

    14 for (Basis, Compaq, Government of India, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Progress, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    1 abstain (Apple) 

WG2
[85-C3] Consensus: Annex C of 10646 Part 2 must be stable for publication.  Any mappings agreed to in Athens must stay the same. The UTC would agree to DPRK additions to Annex C only if there is a clear consensus in the IRG that there are no technical problems associated with the DPRK source mappings. Additions for DPRK source mappings would require complete information to be given to the editor to complete clause 7 (supplementary ideographic plane) and Annex C by the end of the meeting. [L2/00-350, 356]

[85-C4] Consensus: The UTC is concerned about the quality of fonts in the FDIS and would like to see better quality fonts used. The IRG editors group should check the fonts again.  The UTC is willing to participate in this effort. [L2/00-350, 356]

[85-M14] Motion: To align with changes to Part 2 which resulted from the WG2 Athens meeting, the UTC reaffirms the character encoding position and name changes as detailed in L2/00-369, sections 1 b-g.

    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

    14 for (unanimous)

[85-C5] Consensus: The UTC confirms that if a National Body requests the use of a specific font for printing certain code charts, then they must provide it.
Indic Scripts
[85-C6] Consensus: The UTC welcomes proposals for characters missing from its repertoire of Indic scripts, any clarifications of character and script descriptions, and information on characters that are not used or should be deprecated. [L2/00-399, 417]