L2/10-419

Last update: February 14, 2011

 

 

Approved minutes of INCITS/L2 meeting #222

November 1-5, 2010, Cupertino

 

 

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on November 1, 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

Peter Edberg is now the primary representative for Apple, Deborah Goldsmith is an alternate representative.

2.4 New voting membership

No changes to the voting membership.

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:

Members Attendance
Organization Class Representative November 1 November 2 November 3 November 4 November 5
Adobe Systems Voting Eric Muller, primary x x x x x
Ken Lunde, alternate       x  
Apple Voting Peter Edberg, primary x x x x x
John Jenkins, alternate          
Deborah Goldsmith, alternate          
Lee Collins, alternate          
Yasuo Kida, alternate       x  
Google Voting Mark Davis, primary     x x x
Markus Scherer, alternate       x  
Katsuhiko Momoi, alternate       x  
IBM Voting V.S. Umamaheswaran, primary x x x x x
Lisa Moore, alternate x x x x x
Microsoft Voting Peter Constable, primary     x x x
Murray Sargent, alternate   x x x  
Laurentiu Iancu, alternate          
Oracle Voting Ienup Sung, primary          
Naoto Sato, alternate          
Sybase Voting Ken Whistler, primary x x x x x
Ian MacLeod, alternate          
Unicode Voting Rick McGowan, primary x x x x x
Mike Ksar, alternate     x    
Richard Cook, alternate          
Michel Suignard, alternate     x x x
Roozbeh Pournader, 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 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 (L2/10-418) 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 V.S. Umamaheswaran and seconded by Lisa Moore that the agenda be approved. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

 

4. Joint UTC/L2 meeting

It was moved by Peter Edberg and seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/10-417. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

5. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #221

The minutes of meeting L2 #221, August 9 - 13, 2010, document L2/10-224, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Mark Davis to accept those minutes. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

 

6. Reports and liaisons

No reports.

 

7. Ballots

7.1 New ballots

Doc# Subject Source Approval
Criteria
 

Project subdivision proposal for Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC 10646 (3rd Ed.), Information technology -- Universal Coded Character Set (UCS)

It was moved by V.S. Umamaheswaran and seconded by Peter Edberg to approve the project subdivision proposal for Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC 10646 (3rd Ed.), Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS).

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

SC2 N4164

2/3

 

ISO/IEC 10646 FDIS (2nd Ed.), Information technology -- Universal Coded Character Set (UCS)

It was moved by V.S. Umamaheswaran and seconded by Ken Whistler to recommend the approval of ISO/IEC 10646 FDIS (2nd Ed.).

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

SC2 N4153

2/3

7.2 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:

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 approved our request to serve as the US TAG to JTC 1/SC 35/WG 5. See L2/10-461.

 

9. International meetings

9.1 Future meetings

Doc# Subject
 

Delegation to SC2 #17

It was moved by Peter Edberg and seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran that the delegation consist of: Debbie Anderson (HOD), Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Mike Ksar, Lisa Moore, Michel Suignard, Ken Whistler

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.

 

Delegation to WG2 #58

It was moved by Peter Edberg and seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran that the delegation consist of: Debbie Anderson (HOD), Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Lisa Moore, Michel Suignard, Ken Whistler

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.

 

Delegation to OWG-SORT #13

It was moved by Peter Edberg and seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran that the delegation consist of: Debbie Anderson (HOD), Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Mike Ksar, Lisa Moore, Michel Suignard, Ken Whistler

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.

 

Delegation to IRG #36

It was moved by Peter Edberg and seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran that the delegation consist of: Ken Lunde, John Jenkins, Richard Cook, Michel Suignard (HOD).

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.

 

Hosting of WG2 #59 and OWG-SORT #14 by the US

It was moved by Peter Edberg and seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran to offer to host WG2 meeting #59 and OWG-SORT #14, at Microsoft's facilities in Mountain View and with a social event sponsored by Unicode Inc.

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.

 

10. Upcoming meetings

 

11. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

 

12. Adjournment

It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Peter Edberg to adjourn the meeting on November 5, 2010, at 4:17 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.