L2/01-016

L2/SD-2 -- Action items from UTC and L2 after Mountain View

February 12, 2001

For a current view of open action items go to L2/SD-2

From UTC #86 and L2 #183, Jan. 29 – Feb. 1, 2001 in Mountain View (MS)

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

86-1

 

Mike Ksar

Contact Kamal Mansour about the status of the proposal he is writing for Arabic combining characters (old action item 85-A1).

 

86-2

 

Lisa Moore

Add new liaison member to list of liaison organizations (Michael Kaplan from INFITT, the INternational Forum for Information Technology in Tamil).

 

86-3

 

Murray Sargent

Confirm there is a room available for the new dates for UTC 88 (August 14-17, 2001).

 

86-4

 

Dave Birdsall

Write a SQL character handling background paper for UTC/L2 distribution. 

 

86-5

 

Dave Birdsall

Revise Liaison Report based on feedback received at the meeting. [L2/01-052]

 

86-6

 

Lisa Moore 

Send a note to Toby Phipps letting him know that the UTC is eagerly awaiting the DB technical report (old action item 84-A29). 

 

86-7

 

Ken Whistler

Provide feedback to J.M. Sykes on terminology and the character/glyph model. [L2/01-057]

 

86-8

 

Editorial Committee

Change the status of UTR#7: Plane 14 Characters
for Language Tags to Superseded by by the publication of Unicode 3.1.

 

86-9

 

Ken Whistler

Prepare the updated Unicode 3.1 collation tables and modify the packaging to be one file.

 

86-10

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Update UAX#19: UTF-32. [L2/01-061] 

 

86-11

 

Editorial Committee

Prepare an addition to the boiler plate of technical reports that points to useful informative material. 

 

86-12

 

Mark Davis

Pursue IANA registration of UTF-32 (all three forms).

 

86-13

 

Officers

Revisit allowing proxy designations by e-mail in the UTC Procedures.

 

86-14

 

Lisa Moore

Upate the UTC Procedures document with feedback received at the meeting and post on the public part of the web.

 

86-15

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Update UTR#24: Script Names. [L2/01-062, 063]

 

86-16

 

Rick McGowan

Reply to the author of the Kannada paper,      L2/01-037, thanking him and letting him know that the UTC will incorporate explanatory material into the Standard and character annotations where appropriate.  Point out that sorting is done by    using the Unicode Collation Algorithm; appendices 1 and 3 are unnecessary; and to propose new characters for encoding in Unicode, he should fill out a proposal summary form and submit with background information, evidence of usage, etc. Also inform him of the involvement by Dr. Om Vikas.

 

86-17

 

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis

Update the math and East Asian property information in the property file to account for adding U+3008 and U+3009 to the list of    characters with the math property. [L2/01-033] 

 

86-18

 

Asmus Freytag

As Unicode Liaison to L2 and WG2, support the  UTC's action  in 86-M5 (rejecting the disunification of brackets and braces) during L2 and WG2 meetings. [L2/01-033] 

 

86-19

 

Murray Sargent

Inform MathML of the change to use U+3008 and U+3009 as math characters instead of U+2329 and U+232A. [L2/01-033]

 

86-20

 

Cathy Wissink, Markus Scherer

Co-author a FAQ on GB18030.

 

86-21

 

Cathy Wissink, Markus Scherer

Organize the UTC work effort to publish a mapping for GB18030.

 

86-22

 

Editorial Committee

For Unicode 3.1, number articles with Roman    numerals and consistently note the status of the sections as part of the header.

 

86-23

 

Ken Whistler

Add non-characters from planes 3 to 16 to the nameslist, and designate planes 15 and 16 as private use.

 

86-24

 

Asmus Freytag

Update charts to include non-characters from planes 3 to 16 to the nameslist, and designate planes 15 and 16 as private use.

 

86-25

 

Editorial Committee

Incorporate agreed to changes (motions     86-M8-11) to Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #27: Unicode 3.1, and publish as the     Unicode Standard Annex #27: Unicode 3.1. [L2/01-041, 058, 092]

 

86-26

 

Editorial Committee

Update UAX#27: Unicode 3.1, making Cn the      default value for the general category. Including explanatory text for C10. [L2/01-009R].

 

86-27

 

Editorial Committee

For Unicode 3.1, update the proplist file to      include the new categories of derived properties decided in motion 86-M13. [L2/01-082]

 

86-28

 

Sairus Patel

Prepare an updated dingbats proposal, give to Mike Ksar for submission to WG2, and provide fonts to Asmus Freytag. [L2/00-436, l2/01-087] 

 

86-29

 

Ken Whistler

Add the fourteen new dingbat characters to the pipeline document. [L2/00-436]

 

86-30

 

Rick McGowan

Initiate an internet draft describing the Unicode      process for standardizing technical content. L2/01-032] 

 

86-31

 

Officers

Improve communications processes with liaison organizations and the public in response to the IETF's desire to work with publicly released information. [L2/01-032] 

 

86-32

 

Rick McGowan

Initiate an internet draft describing the registration
process for namespace authorities. [L2/01-056]

 

86-33

 

Asmus Freytag

Provide wording on UTC actions (86-M15, 16)
regarding recycling symbols to Michel Suignard for US comments. [L2/01-005]

 

86-34

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline document with the four additional recycling symbols approved in 86-M16. [L2/01-005]

 

86-35

 

Ken Whistler

Update pipeline with the UTC's action to rescind
U+17DD KHMER SIGN LAAK as documented in 86-M17.

 

86-36

 

Michel Suignard

Include in US comments on Amendment 1, the UTC's action to rescind U+17DD KHMER SIGN LAAK as documented in 86-M17. 

 

86-37

 

Michel Suignard

Have the US comments on Amendment 1 support
Bruce Paterson's comments given in L2/01-073.

 

86-38

 

Michel Suignard

Include in the US comments the UTC's approval of the 10646-2 FDIS in motion 86-M18.

 

86-39

 

Michel Suignard

Include in the US comments on Amendment 1  the UTC's decision that symbol names should use "BLACK" instead of "FILLED" and  "WHITE" should be added to character names that are complementary characters to those with "BLACK" in the names.

 

86-40

 

Mark Davis

Respond to Michael Everson's comments and concerns about the COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER found in WG2 action item 39-10-a.
[L2/01-042]

 

86-41

 

Ken Whistler

Update the composition exclusion list to include
U+FB1D YOD WITH HIRIQ. [L2/01-004] 

 

86-42

 

Mark Davis

Update Normalizationtest.txt to account for adding
U+FB1D YOD WITH HIRIQ to the composition exclusion list. [L2/01-004] 
 

 

86-43

 

Editorial Committee

Update UAX#15: Unicode Normalization Forms
to incorporate the addition of U+FB1D YOD WITH HIRIQ to the composition exclusion list and
note it is a corrigendum. [L2/01-004] 
 

 

86-44

 

Editorial Committee

Update the Unicode Policies document to note the
corrigendum in normalization forms which adds U+FB1D YOD WITH HIRIQ to the composition
exclusion list. [L2/01-004] 

 

86-45

 

Editorial Committee

Include in Unicode 3.1 the corrigendum to    normalization forms which adds U+FB1D YOD WITH HIRIQ to the composition exclusion list. [L2/01-004] 

 

86-46

 

Editorial Committee: 

Once all updates to account for the corrigendum in normalization forms which added U+FB1D YOD WITH HIRIQ to the composition exclusion list are complete (86-A41-45), announce the change publicly. [L2/01-004] 

 

86-47

 

Unicode Liaisons

Inform Liaison Members of the corrigendum in
normalization forms which added U+FB1D YOD WITH HIRIQ to the composition exclusion list.
L2/01-004]

 

86-48

 

Editorial Committee

Increase the warnings about using language tag
characters in Unicode 3.1.

 

86-49

 

Lisa Moore

Respond to the Georgian Ministry of IT on re-ordering the Georgian characters (point to the collation table that can be used for ordering) and on the representation of their requested character by a combining sequence. [L2/01-059] 

 

86-50

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline document with the two new
Georgian accepted in 86-M21. [L2/01-046, 047, 048] 

 

86-51

 

Lisa Moore

Forward the proposal for the two new Georgian accepted in 86-M21 to WG2 with a cover letter. [L2/01-046, 047, 048] 
 

 

86-52

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline with the rejected Georgian letter U-BRJGU and document the combining sequence that can be used to represent it –– <U+10E3, U+030C>. [L2/01-046, 047, 048]

 

86-53

 

Michael Kaplan

Run the chart program using a Nuskhuri font and
provide to the Editorial Committee by February
15, 2001. [L2/01-040] 
 

 

86-54

 

Editorial Committee

Update the Georgian text in Unicode 3.1 based on document L2/01-040 and motion 86-M23.

 

86-55

 

Joe Becker

Inform Michael Everson of the UTC actions on Georgian. 

 

86-56

 

Lisa Moore

Inform the Georgian Ministry of IT of the latest Unicode text on Georgian and let them know a new code chart based on the liturgical font will be included. 

 

86-57

 

Lisa Moore

Reply to the Patriarch of Georgia on behalf of the UTC.

 

86-58

 

Editorial Committee

Update the text of Unicode 3.1 and change UAX#9 to reflect motions 86-M24, 25. [L/01-089]

 

86-59

 

Editorial Committee

Include the derived property files as separate files in the Unicode 3.1 directory and update readmes as appropriate. [L2/01-082] 

 

86-60

 

Mark Davis

Make fixes in the derived property list files for Unicode 3.1 as discussed during UTC#86. [L2/01-082]

 

86-61

 

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler

Update the proplist file for the whitespace property for Unicode 3.1 as agreed in motion 86-M27. [L2/01-082] 

 

86-62

 

Editorial Committee

Ensure that proplist.html has sufficient explanation in Unicode 3.1. [L2/01-082]

 

86-63

 

Asmus Freytag, Murray Sargent 

Form an ad hoc group to refine the math proposal given in L2/01-088.

 

86-64

 

Asmus Freytag

The Unicode liaison to WG2 should oppose the
addition of the math characters (given in L2/01-088) to Amendment 1 unless a letter ballot is passed by the UTC. 

 

86-65

 

Asmus Freytag

Respond to Patrick Ion on the math variant characters, informing him that the UTC is determining if the eight math characters given in document L2/01-064 should be encoded individually. This work will be undertaken by the math ad hoc group.

 

86-66

 

Mark Davis

Notify UTC corporate members of the impending deadline for comments on the W3C character model. [L2/01-071] 

 

86-67

 

Mark Davis

Forward UTC comments on the W3C character model to the W3C I18N Working Group. [L2/01-071]

 

86-68

 

Mark Davis

Produce a document on the ISO 8601/XML Schema date/time range problems for L2 to forward to the appropriate ISO committee. [L2/01-043]

 

86-69

 

Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee

Provide text in bidi implementation guidelines in Unicode 3.1 to describe non-removal of explicit controls. [L2/01-089]

 

86-70

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline document with the new character ARABIC TAIL FRAGMENT. [L2/01-069] 

 

86-71

 

V.S. Umamaheswaran

Update the proposal summary form for the
character, ARABIC TAIL FRAGMENT, and forward to WG2. [L2/01-069]

 

86-72

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline document with the new character LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG . [L2/00-423] 

 

86-73

 

Asmus Freytag

The Unicode Liaison to WG2 is instructed to support the new character LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG . [L2/00-423]

 

86-74

 

Asmus Freytag

Provide input to Michel Suignard for US comments on changing the name of U+2140 from DOUBLE STUCK CAPITAL SIGMA to DOUBLE STRUCK N-ARY SUMMATION. [L2/00-426] 

 

86-75

 

Michel Suignard

Include in the US comments on Amendment 1  the UTC's decision that the name of U+2140 should be changed from DOUBLE STUCK CAPITAL SIGMA to DOUBLE STRUCK N-ARY SUMMATION. [L2/00-426]

 

86-76

 

Arnold Winkler

Provide comments on the Taxonomy for European Localiation Requirements to Uma for him to forward to CEN. [L2/01-021]

 

86-77

 

Lisa Moore

Respond to the COBOL committee's query about normatively referencing TR 14562. [L2/01-035]

 

86-78

 

Editorial Committee

Review document L2/01-081, update as
appropriate, and post as Proposed Draft Technical Report#23: Survey and Guidelines for Unicode Character Properties.

 

 

183-79

Davis, Whistler

Draft text to include references to Bidi and Normalization into the PDAM#1 for 10646-1:2000

 

 

183-80

Arnold Winkler

Confirm UTC/L2 meeting arrangements with Toby Phipps

 

 

183-81

Arnold Winkler

Report changes in US delegates to NCITS

 

 

183-82

Lisa Moore

Lisa will reply to Klein and recommend that Unicode be used instead of TR 14652 for COBOL. 

 

 

183-84

Joan Aliprand

contact Pat Harris to prepare documentation for registration of ANSI/NISO Z39.47

 

 

183-85

Joan Aliprand
Rick McGowan

Publish mapping tables for ISO TC46 standards

 

 

From UTC #85 and L2 #184, November 7-10, 2000 in San Diego, (NCR)

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

85-1

 

Mark Davis, Kamal Mansour

Write a proposal for Arabic combining    characters.

 

85-2

 

Sandra Martin O'Donnell

Working with Peter Constable and Rick McGowan, further refine the requirements for qualified namespace authorities.

In progress

85-3

 

Ken Whistler

Coordinate with Peter Constable to provide feedback to IETF (see 85-2).

Closed, coor. done

85-4

 

Mark Davis

Update UTR#22: Unicode Character Mapping Markup Language (CharMap ML). [L2/00-402]

Done

85-5

 

Mark Davis

Update UTR#21: Case Mappings. [L2/00-390, 395, 396]

Done

85-6

 

Mark Davis 

Update Draft UTR#21: Script Names. [L2/00-368R, 379]

Done

85-7

 

Kamal Mansour

Prepare a proposal summary form for ARABIC LETTER DOTLESS BEH and ARABIC LETTER DOTLESS QAF and forward to WG2. [L2/00-354] 

Open
Mike to push Kamal

85-8

 

Ken Whistler

Update the web site pipeline document for ARABIC LETTER DOTLESS BEH and ARABIC LETTER DOTLESS QAF. [L2/00-354]

Done

85-9

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Put a link on the Unicode web site to the roadmap.

In progress

85-10

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Change Unique Sequence Identifier to Unicode Sequence Identifier. [L2/00-369] 

Done

85-11

 

Ken Whistler

Update the web site pipeline document to reflect the changes to Part 1 from the Athens WG2 meeting, as agreed to in motion [85-M7]. [L2/00-369] 

Done

85-12

 

Ken Whistler

Draft two documents in response to JIS X 0213 compatibility characters: 1) our counter proposal to Sato-san's document L2/00-378 and 2) a document that maps JIS  X 0213 compatibility characters to the CJK radical extension. Distribute these documents with a liaison statement to WG2 and ask Kimura-san to distribute to SC2.

 

85-13

 

Ken Whistler

Update the web site pipeline document to reflect the acceptance of the eight recycling characters.

Done

85-14

 

Sandra Martin O'Donnell

Draft FAQ material to respond to Unicode and internationalization concerns that have come up on the SUS discussion list. [L2/00-382]

Planned for February delivery

85-15

 

Ken Whistler

Send notes on Unicore soliciting comments on 15897, 15435 and 14652. [L2/00-381, 383, 385, 386]

 

85-16

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Update the text of the Unicode Standard to reflect
85-consensus 1.

Done

85-17

 

Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee

Incorporate into V3.1 changes to explanatory text for datafiles regarding changes to the General Category property and Case Mappings.     [L2/00-392] 

In progress

85-18

 

Ken Whistler

Post updated datafiles for public review. [L2/00-392]

done

85-19

 

Editorial Committee

Incorporate into V3.1 the new glossary entries as
documented in L2/00-391 and modified during discussion.

Done

85-20

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Use the amended document L2/00-414 to     create modified text for Chapter 3 to address security issues in UTF-8.

done

85-21

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline document to show the grapheme joiner with an encoding position of U+034F. 

Done

85-22

 

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler

Work with Michael Everson to produce a new
proposal for the grapheme joiner for WG2. [L2/00-369]

 

85-23

 

Cathy Wissink

Send a line for the translated summary of  GB 18030 to Arnold Winkler. 

Overcome by new standard

85-24

 

Cathy Wissink

Send text on GB 18030 to Arnold Winkler so that he can forward to ITI on behalf of our US companies.

Overcome by new standard

85-25

 

Mark Davis

Send a link to Arnold Winkler that points to an explanation of GB 18030 mappings with a list of the known problems.

Overcome by new standard

85-26

 

Editorial Committee

Add a standard reference section at the end of all
technical reports. Also, collect all references in the new section.

Closed. 
Now policy

85-27

 

Mark Davis

Write a response on FDIS 8601 to be reviewed by the Editorial Committee and forwarded through WG20. [L2/00-389]

In progress

85-28

 

Michael Kaplan

Write a document which describes how the current Unicode encoding of Georgian can be used to represent the three Georgian scripts. [L2/00-404]

Done

85-29

 

Editorial Committee

Make sure that Unicode V3.1 adequately describes how  the current Unicode encoding of Georgian can be used to represent the three Georgian scripts.
[L2/00-404]

Done

85-30

 

Arnold Winkler

Watch the SC35 list for anything regarding CLAUI
compliance checking and forward to UTC members. [L2/00-321, 384]

Closed, ongoing

85-31

 

Lisa Moore

Determine who will be the UTC liaison to IRG. 

Done

85-32

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline document to show the changes needed to maintain alignment with Part 2 of WG2. [L2/00-369] 

Done

85-33

 

Michael Kaplan, Editorial Committee

Update the Tamil block description to note that item 5, page 232 is archaic practice. [L2/00-400] 

In progress

85-34

 

Michael Kaplan

Encourage the Tamil group to have liaison activities with the UTC. [L2/00-405] 

Done, Mike is the liaison

85-35

 

Lisa Moore

Invite Tamil Nadu to come to the UTC.

Done

85-36

 

Om Vikas

Pursue organizing an ad hoc work group of Indic experts and UTC experts for educational purposes.

 

85-37

 

Michael Kaplan

Provide text on visual ordering of input for Indic script block introductions. 

In progress

85-38

 

Om Vikas

Provide text for Indic script block introductions, particularly including information on syllable formation.

 

85-39

 

Murray Sargent, Cathy Wissink

Provide input to Asmus Freytag on the description of processes that make use of Unicode character properties. [L2/00-401] 

Done

85-40

 

Asmus Freytag

Solicit further input from Unicore on Proposed Draft Technical Report #23, Character Property Model, and update based on input received during the UTC and from Unicore, including a change in title to Proposed Draft Technical Report #23, Survey and Guidelines for Unicode Character Properties. [L2/00-401] 

In progress
update done

85-41

 

Ken Whistler

Note in the datafiles the new property defined for ZWSP - collapsible white space.

 

 

184-42

Arnold Winkler

Report ballot results and comments to NCITS

done

 

From UTC #84 and L2 #183, August 8-11, 2000 in Boston (Progress)

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

84-01

 

Ken Whistler

Document character rejections from this and the previous meeting. 

Done
pipeline fixes

84-02

 

Murray Sargent

Add descriptive text for the math proposal that can be used in publication of the Standard. We need to know how the math characters should be used in practice, any systematic relationships, and the use of other characters with the math property that won't be in the math block.

open

84-04

 

Asmus Freytag

Complete the table given in the Character Foldings proposal, L2/00-261, and make suggested updates including the rationale section.

In progress

84-13

 

Lisa Moore

Respond to WG2 on the UTC position on additional Georgian characters. [L2/99-082]

Done

84-29

 

Toby Phipps

Include the issues raised in L2/00-184 in the TR on using Unicode in databases.

 

84-36

 

Editorial Committee

(Asmus)

Review the final results from W3C on UTR#20: Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages. Make editorial updates as appropriate and forward major changes to the UTC for its approval. [L2/00-266]

Completed

84-44

 

Mark, Editorial Committee

Pull out appropriate text from L2/00-262 on handling
surrogates and create a FAQ.

 

84-28

 

Editorial Committee

Correct the terminology used on the Unicode web site
(particularly in the Technical Introduction) based on the confusion in terms noted in Appendix B of L2/00-184. 

In progress

84-27

 

Arnold Winkler

Communicate with the SQL working group about establishing a liaison with L2/Unicode. [L2/00-184] 

H2 contacted, closed

From UTC #83 and L2 #182 April 25-28, 2000  San Jose (Microsoft)

 

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

83-02

 

Mark Davis

Have Cora Chang verify the collection of compatibility characters given in L2/00-087 (map to source and verify no duplicates)

In progress

83-03

 

Ken Whistler

Respond to Japan on the rising and falling tone letters. [L2/00-108]

done

83-30

 

Patrick Ion
Ken Whistler

Analyze math symbols to propose annotations to clarify character usage.

Waiting for input from Patric

83-45

 

John Jenkins (taking over from Mark Davis)

Document in Unicode 3.1 that the radical characters are compatibility characters and ensure that this is communicated to WG2 and the IRG.

Arnold ask John on 8/16/2000

 

UTC #82 and L2 #179, January 31 – February 3, 2000 in San Jose  [Apple]

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

82-27

 

Officers

Update UTC Procedures and distribute to the membership  before the next UTC.

closed

82-32

 

Ed Hart

Create UTC guidelines for changes other than character additions.

closed

 

UTC #81 and L2 #178, October 26-29, 1999 in Mission Viejo [Unisys]

UTC #

L2 #

Who ?

Action

Status 

81-01

 

Officers, Aliprand

Develop a policy on patents and inform the UTC

open

 

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