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Subject: (SC22docs.2674) N 4205 - Canadian Contribution to the 25-28 September 2007 JTC 1/ SC 22 Plenary on the Transfer of ISO/IEC TR 14652

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI)
 
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N4205
 
TITLE:
Canadian Contribution to the 25-28 September 2007 JTC 1/SC 22 Plenary on the Transfer of ISO/IEC TR 14652

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2007-05-10
 
SOURCE:
Canadian National Body

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This document is circulated to JTC 1 National Bodies for review and consideration at the September 2007 JTC 1/SC 22 Plenary.  This document will be discussed under agenda item 7.1.1.

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat
Sally Seitz
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Canada requests that this be put on the agenda for the upcoming SC22 plenary, with a specific recommendation to approve transfer 14652 to SC35

Canada notes that Project 14652 maintains TR14652 Specification of Cultural Conventions, but SC22 has terminated its WG that takes care of this project and other internationalization projects. SC35, at their most recent meeting, has offered to take responsibility for this document, with the following resolution:

Given that ISO/IEC 15897 (Registry of Cultural elements) maintenance has been transferred to SC35, that this standard uses ISO/IEC TR 14652 as one of the description formats for its registrations, and in relation to a request to SC22 from Canada for a ballot to transfer ISO/IEC 14652  to SC35, SC35 provisionally accepts to host the maintenance of this International Standard, conditionally to the adoption of a resolution by SC22. SC35/WG1 and WG5 already entertain activities related to other formats suitable for the registry, in particular a format for describing keyboard layouts, and SC35 would like to enhance ISO/IEC TR 14652 to that effect.

Sally Seitz
Program Manager
American National Standards Institute
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