L2/09-108R

Last update: May 18, 2009

 

 

Approved minutes for INCITS/L2 meeting #216

May 12-15, 2009, San José

 

 

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on May 12, 2009, at 9:45 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 Officers

2.2 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.

HP did not renew their membership.

2.3 Changes in representation since last meeting

Tex Texin is no longer representing NetApp.

2.4 New voting membership

No organization gained voting membership since the last meeting.

2.5 New advisory members

No organization has applied for membership since the last meeting.

2.6 Membership for this meeting

Based on the above information, the total voting membership is 11, 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 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15
Adobe Systems Voting Eric Muller, primary x x x x
Ken Lunde, alternate        
Apple Voting Deborah Goldsmith, primary   x x x
John Jenkins, alternate     x x
Peter Edberg, alternate x x   x
Lee Collins, alternate        
Google Voting Mark Davis, primary x x x  
IBM Voting V.S.Umamaheswaran, primary x x x x
Lisa Moore, alternate x x x x
Microsoft Voting Peter Constable, primary x x x x
Murray Sargent, alternate x x x  
NetApp Voting No representative        
Sun Microsystems Voting Ienup Sung, primary x x x x
Naoto Sato, alternate        
Sybase Voting Ken Whistler, primary x x x x
Ian MacLeod, alternate        
Unicode Voting Rick McGowan, primary x x x x
Mike Ksar, alternate     x  
Richard Cook, alternate     x  
Michel Suignard, alternate x x x x
University of California at Berkeley Voting Deborah Anderson, primary x x x x
Yahoo! Voting Craig Cummings, primary        
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 (L2/09-107) 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 Lisa Moore and seconded by Rick McGowan 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 #215, February 2-6, 2009, document L2/09-006, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Peter Edberg to accept those minutes. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

 

5. Reports and liaisons

5.1 INCITS TC Officers Symposium

5.2 WG2 #54 Dublin, Ireland, April 20-24, 2009

5.3 OWG-SORT #8 Dublin, Ireland, April 20-24, 2009

5.4 Liaison with INCITS PL22

Doc# Subject Approval
Criteria
L2/09-152

Establishment of a liaison with INCITS PL22

It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by V.S.Umamaheswaran to establish a liaison relationship with INCITS PL22, and to appoint Eric Muller as the liaison officer.

The resolution was approved 8:0:0:3:

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

majority

 

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
L2/09-013

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

SC2 N4045 2009-03-06 2/3
Table of replies: SC2 N4064
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 SC2 N4049 2009-03-11 2/3
Table of replies: SC2 N4065
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 SC2 N4052 2009-02-25 2/3
Table of replies: SC2 N4063

 

6.2 New ballots to vote

The ballots listed in the agenda have not been formally issued yet. Those ballots will be voted on at the next meeting.

6.3 U.S. Contributions to ISO

Doc# Subject Source INCITS
Due Date		 Approval
Criteria
 

It was moved by V.S.Umamaheswaran and seconded by Ken Whistler to send the following documents as US contributions to SC2/WG2:

  • L2/09-215, Proposal to add two Kashmiri Characters
  • L2/09-074R, Proposal to Encode the Sharada Script in ISO/IEC 10646
  • L2/09-189, Proposal for encoding the Sora Sompeng script in the UCS
  • L2/09-185R, Proposal for PENTAGRAM characters and request for annotation change to U+269D OUTLINED WHITE STAR
  • L2/09-188R2, Proposal for encoding the Meroitic script

The resolution was approved 8:0:0:3:

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

    2/3
 

It was moved by V.S.Umamaheswaran and seconded by Ken Whistler to send the following documents as US contributions to SC2/WG2/IRG:

  • L2/09-220, Requirement for Additional Source Information in the Extension D Documentation

The resolution was approved 8:0:0:3:

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

    2/3

7. International meetings

7.1 Future meetings

Doc# Subject Approval
Criteria
 

Hosting of meetings WG2 #56 and OWG-SORT #10 by the US

It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Michel Suignard to offer to host WG meeting #56 and OWG-SORT #10, at Adobe's facilities in San José, and with a social event sponsored by Unicode Inc.

The resolution was approved 8:0:0:3:

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

majority

8. Joint UTC/L2 meeting recommendations

It was moved by V.S.Umamaheswaran and seconded by Rick McGowan to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/09-105. 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 V.S.Umamaheswaran and seconded by Lisa Moore to adjourn the meeting on May 15, 2009, at 3:24 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.