L2/10-224

Last update: November 5, 2010

Approved minutes of INCITS/L2 meeting #221

August 9-13, 2010, Redmond

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on August 9, 2010, at 10:50 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.

2.3 Changes in representation since last meeting

Laurentiu Iancu is now an alternate representative for Microsoft.

2.4 New voting membership

Sun's membership has been transfered to Oracle.

At this point, the future status of Sybase wrt. L2 membership is unknown. For this meeting, Sybase remains a voting member.

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 10, 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:

3. Approval of the Agenda

An electronic version of the agenda (L2/10-223) 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 Ken Whistler and seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran that the agenda be approved. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

4. Joint UTC/L2 meeting

It was moved by V.S. Umamaheswaran and seconded by Peter Edberg to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/10-222. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

5. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #220

The minutes of meeting L2 #220, May 10-15, 2010, document L2/10-111, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by Uma and seconded by Ken to accept those minutes. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

6. Reports and liaisons

No reports.

7. Ballots

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

7.1 Ballot reports

7.2 New ballots

7.3 U.S. Contributions to ISO

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

• L2/10-228, Proposal to append one CJK Unified Ideograph to the URO (revised)
• L2/10-282, Response to N3819 "Preliminary Proposal for Encoding Special Scripts and Characters in UCS for Uighur, Kazakh and Kirgiz"
• L2/10-325, Proposed additions to ISO/IEC 10646

The motion passed 9:0:0:1.

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

8. US participation in JTC 1/SC 35/WG 5

The INCITS EB will discuss this at its October meeting.

9. INCITS EB Letter ballots on the adoption of ISO/IEC TR 11017:1998 and ISO/IEC TR 15285:1998.

10. International meetings

10.1 Future meetings

• SC2 #17, Helsinki, Finland, June 6-10, 2011

• OWG-SORT #12, Busan, Republic of Korea, October 4-8, 2010
• OWG-SORT #13, Helsinki, Finland, June 6-10, 2011
• OWG-SORT #14, Mountain View, CA, USA, first quarter 2012 (tentative)
  

• WG2 #57, Busan, Republic of Korea, October 4-8, 2010
• WG2 #58, Helsinki, Finland, June 6-10, 2011
• WG2 #59, Mountain View, CA, USA, first quarter 2012 (tentative)

• IRG #35, Macao SAR, November 8-12, 2010
• IRG #36, Chong Qing, China, April 11-15, 2011
• IRG #37, USA, November 7-11 (or 14-18), 2011 (tentative)

11. Upcoming meetings

• UTC 125/L2 222: November 1-5, 2010, Cupertino, host Apple
• UTC 126/L2 223: February 7-11, 2011, Sunnyvale, host Yahoo!
• UTC 127/L2 224: May 9-13, 2011, San José, host Adobe
• UTC 128/L2 225: August 8-12, 2011, Redmond, host Microsoft

12. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

13. Adjournment

It was moved by V.S.Umamaheswaran and seconded by Peter Edberg to adjourn the meeting on August 13, 2010, at 3:27 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.