L2/02-370

Preliminary minutes for INCITS/L2 meeting # 189
Redmond, 20 August – 23 August 2002

2002-10-30

Meeting location:  Redmond.  Hosted by Microsoft

http://www.unicode.org/L2/meetings/logistics-utc92.html

 

1                   Opening of L2 meeting - remarks from the chair

2                   Joint meeting with UTC

3                   Administrative agenda

3.1. Attendance and membership

3.1.1. Membership list

Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Progress, RLG, SHARE, Sun, Sybase, Unicode (13)

This membership list reflects the HP-Compaq merger; NCR is a member again.

3.1.2. Members in jeopardy

3.1.3. Attendance

Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Sybase, Unicode (7)

3.2 Officers for L2

3.3. Approval of meetings minutes from May 2002  [02-293]

3.4. Action items follow-up  [SD-2]

3.5. Registration of new documents and assignment to the agenda

See L2/SD-3 for current document register

3.6. Approval of agenda [02-319]

3.7. Upcoming meetings

UTC 93/L2 190—November 5-8, 2002, Nashua, NH, host Compaq

UTC 94/L2 191—March 4-7, 2003, Mountain View, host Microsoft

UTC 95/L2 192—June 3-6, 2003, San Jose, host Adobe

UTC 96/L2 193—August 19-22, 2003, host TBD

4                   Reports and liaisons

4.1. WG20

4.1.1.  WG20 Convenership

4.1.2.  TR10176:  Internationalization in Programming Languages (4th edition)

4.1.3.  ISO 14651:  String Ordering

4.1.4.  TR 14652:  Specification Method

4.1.5.  Possible WG20 meeting in Korea, Feb 2003

4.1.6.  CLAUI and WG2 resolution

4.1.7.  ISO 15897—comments from “editing group” (meeting attendees)

5                   Ballots

5.1.  New ballots to vote:

 

Doc. #

Subject

Source

Date

Vote

L2/02-285

WG 2 Proposal on Future of CLAUI TD (Technical Direction for Cultural and Linguistic Adaptability and User Interfaces)

SC2  N3616

2002-08-26

7:0:0:6

L2/02-302

Application for Registration No. 231, American National Standard Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Bibliographic Use (ANSEL)

SC2  N3618

2002-09-06

7:0:0:6

L2/02-300

(multiple sections)

Text for FPDAM ballot, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000/FPDAM 2, Information technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane AMENDMENT 2:
Limbu, Tai Le, Yijing and other characters

SC2  N3624

2002-11-8, noon EST!

TBD L2#193

L2/02-296

Text for FPDAM ballot,  ISO/IEC 10646-2: 2001/FPDAM 1, Information technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 2: Supplementary Planes AMENDMENT 1: Aegean, Ugaritic, and other characters

SC2 N3625

2002-11-8,

noon EST!

TBD L2#193

L2/02-298

L2/02-299

Text of DTR 10176, Guidelines for the Preparation of Programming Language Standards (4th edition)

JTC1 N6815

2002-09-27

7:0:0:6

L2/02-269

L2/02-245

Text for FDIS 2375, Information technology -- Procedure for registration of escape sequences and coded character sets

SC2 N3630

Imminent

7:0:0:6

L2/02-272

L2/02-271

Text of ISO/IEC 14651, Amendment. #1 for FDAM ballot

SC22 N3460

imminent

TBD

 

5.2.  Ballot reports:

Doc. #

Subject

Source

Date

Vote

L2/02-093

L2/02-110
L2/02-144 (LB)

FCD 2375, Information technology-Procedure for registration of escape sequences and coded character sets

SC2 N3592

2002-02-01

8:0:0:5

L2/02-066

 

JTC 1 TAG Letter Ballot, List of International Standards for Systematic (5-yr Maintenance) Review

JT/02-0074

2002-02-01

 

8:0:0:5 to confirm all applicable standards

 

 

5.3.  Letter ballot reports:

 

Doc. #

Subject

Source

Date

Vote

L2/02-226 (letter ballot), L2/02-066

Reconfirmation of ISO 3275:1974

JT/02-0074

2002-06-20

13:0:0:0

L2/02-257 (letter ballot)

Re-affirmation of X3.4:1986 (7-bit ASCII)

IT/02-0064

2002-08-01

10:1:0:2

L2/02-264 (letter ballot)

Endorsement of Ken Whistler as US Candidate for WG20 convener

JT/02-0166, JT/02-0434

2002-07-25

11:0:0:2

 

 

6                   Voting on joint UTC/L2 meeting recommendations [02-254]

 

7                   Delegates to SC2 and SC22/WG20 meetings

7.1.  SC22 in Finland, August 26-30, 2002

7.2.  CLAUI in Sophia Antipolis, France, October 2002 (before JTC1 Plenary; tentative)

7.3.  SC2/WG2 in Tokyo, Japan, December 9-13, 2002 [due 11/10/02]

Delegates: Whistler, Davis, Suignard, Freytag, Wissink, Ksar

 

8                   Other

8.1.  Change of L2 name

L2’s name has been officially changed to “Character Sets and Internationalization”.

 

8.2.  Stabilized Standards [02-297]

The secretariat has heard L2’s dissatisfaction with the current stabilized standards policy (as expressed through various ballot comments and the annual report).  Other reference documents:  L2/02-058, L2/02-059.

 

8.3.  Clean up of project list

 

8.4.  JTC1-INCITS consolidation

 

8.5.  SC22 ad hoc on character sets

 

 

 

9                   Adjournment