L2/09-006

Last update: May 15, 2009

 

 

Approved minutes for INCITS/L2 meeting #215

February 2-6, 2009, Mountain View

 

 

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on February 2, 2009, at 10:40 am. He introduced himself as Chair.

1.1 Meeting Guidelines

The Chair stated that the meeting was operating under INCITS procedures, and called special attention to the ANSI patent policies (showing slides 1-3 of http://www.incits.org/pat_slides.pdf) and the INCITS antitrust policies (http://www.incits.org/inatrust.htm). The Chair noted that the INCITS Antitrust Guidelines applied to this committee meeting, and that it was the responsibility of all attendees, and not just the Officers, to ensure that the Guidelines are followed, and to terminate discussions if they are not.

1.2 Meeting Documents

The Chair noted that the meeting documents are obtainable from http://www.unicode.org/L2/L-curdoc.htm (using the current user ID and password). The agenda and meeting documents were posted in the required time frame.

2. Attendance and membership

2.1 Gaining and losing voting membership

Information on how membership is gained, maintained, and lost in any INCITS Technical Committee or Task Group may be found at http://www.incits.org/rd2/in080568.pdf. An overview of these requirements was introduced by the chair and was distributed to all attendees in the electronically distributed meeting documents.

2.3 Changes in representation since last meeting

No change in representation.

2.4 New advisory members

No organization has applied for membership since the last meeting.

2.5 Membership for this meeting

Based on the above information, the total voting membership is 12, effective at the start of this meeting. The complete list of members (both voting and advisory), as well as the attendance to this meeting is:

Members Attendance
Organization Class Representative February 2 February 3 February 4 February 5 February 6
Adobe Systems Voting Eric Muller, primary x x x x x
Ken Lunde, alternate          
Apple Voting Deborah Goldsmith, primary          
John Jenkins, alternate          
Peter Edberg, alternate   x x x x
Lee Collins, alternate          
Google Voting Mark Davis, primary x x x x x
Hewlett-Packard Voting Susan Kline, primary          
IBM Voting V.S.Umamaheswaran, primary          
Lisa Moore, alternate x x x x x
Microsoft Voting Peter Constable, primary x x x x x
Murray Sargent, alternate   x x x  
NetApp Voting Tex Texin, primary x x x   x
Sun Microsystems Voting Ienup Sung, primary x   x x x
Naoto Sato, alternate          
Sybase Voting Ken Whistler, primary x x x x x
Ian MacLeod, alternate          
Unicode Voting Rick McGowan x x x x x
Mike Ksar, alternate       x  
Richard Cook, alternate          
Michel Suignard, alternate x x x x x
University of California at Berkeley Voting Deborah Anderson, primary x x x x x
Yahoo! Voting Craig Cummings, primary x   x x x
Norbert Lindenberg, alternate          
Mike McKenna, alternate          
Federal Communications Commission Liaison Donald Draper-Campbell          
INCITS/PL22.4 Liaison Ann Bennett          
Library of Congress Liaison Randall K. Barry          
Sally McCallum          

3. Approval of the Agenda

An electronic version of the agenda (L2/09-005) and supporting documents were accessible via http://www.unicode.org/L2/L-curdoc.htm. The Chair presented the agenda and made a call for any new agenda item. It was moved by Peter Constable and seconded by Lisa Moore that the agenda be approved as revised. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

 

4. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #214

The minutes of meeting L2 #214, November 5-7, 2008, document L2/08-364, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by Mark Davis and seconded by Ken Whistler to accept those minutes. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

 

5. Reports and liaisons

 

6. Ballots

A summary of recent international ballots is available at http://www.unicode.org/L2/L-notice.htm.

6.1 International ballot reports

Doc# Subject Source INCITS
Due Date		 Approval
Criteria
L2/08-261 ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FDAM 5, Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- AMENDMENT 5: Tai Tham, Tai Viet, Avestan, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C, and other characters SC2 N4027   2/3

Table of replies: SC2 N4044
L2/08-391 Project Subdivision Proposal for ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/Amendment 7 SC2 N4041   2/3
Approval: SC2 N4053  

 

6.2 New ballots to vote

Doc# Subject Source INCITS
Due Date		 Approval
Criteria
L2/09-013

ISO/IEC 14651: 2007/FPDAM 1, Information technology -- International string ordering and comparison -- Method for comparing character strings and description of the common template tailorable ordering -- AMENDMENT 1

It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Peter Edberg to disapprove ISO/IEC 14651:2007/FPDAM 1 with comments, as documented in L2/09-085. The resolution was approved 11:0:0:1.

For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo!
Against: none
Abstain: none
No vote: HP

SC2 N4045 2009-03-06 2/3
L2/09-014

ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 6, Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- AMENDMENT 6: Bamum, Javanese, Lisu, Meetei Mayek, Samaritan, and other characters

It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Peter Edberg to approve ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 6 with comments, as documented in L2/09-082. The resolution was approved 11:0:0:1.

For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo!
Against: none
Abstain: none
No vote: HP

SC2 N4049 2009-03-11 2/3
L2/09-015

ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/PDAM 7, Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- AMENDMENT 7: Mandaic, Batak, Brahmi, Tangut, and other characters

It was moved by Peter Edberg and seconded by Lisa Moore to approve ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/PDAM 7 with comments, as documented in L2/09-083. The resolution was approved 11:0:0:1.

For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo!
Against: none
Abstain: none
No vote: HP

SC2 N4052 2009-02-25 2/3
 

US Delegate list, meeting WG2 #54 (Dublin, April 2009)

It was moved by Deborah Anderson and seconded by Eric Muller to approve the delegation as listed in document L2/09-086. The resolution was approved 11:0:0:1.

For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo!
Against: none
Abstain: none
No vote: HP

   

2/3
 

US Delegate list, meeting OWG-SORT #9 (Dublin, April 2009)

It was moved by Deborah Anderson and seconded by Eric Muller to approve the delegation as listed in document L2/09-087. The resolution was approved 11:0:0:1.

For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo!
Against: none
Abstain: none
No vote: HP

    2/3
 

US Delegate list, meeting IRG #32 (Hong Kong SAR, June 2009)

It was moved by Rick McGowan and seconded by Eric Muller to approve the delegation as listed in document L2/09-088. The resolution was approved 11:0:0:1.

For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo!
Against: none
Abstain: none
No vote: HP

    2/3

 

7. International meetings

7.1 Future meetings

 

8. Endorsement of joint UTC/L2 meeting recommendations

It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Peter Edberg to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/09-004. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

9. Upcoming meetings

 

10. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

 

11. Adjournment

It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Peter Edberg to adjourn the meeting on February 6, 2009, at 4:50 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.