L2/11-356

Last update: November 30, 2011

 

 

Approved minutes of INCITS/L2 meeting #226

October 31 - November 4, 2011, Cupertino

 

 

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on October 31, 2011, at 10:45 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

No change in officers.

The term of the current L2 chair expires in January 2012. Craig Cummings has been appointed by the INCITS Executive Board as the new chair, for a period of three years starting in January 2012.

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

Yahoo! is now represented by Linus Tanaka (primary). There are no alternate representatives.

Adobe Systems has an additional alternate representative: John O'Conner (who is no longer representing Yahoo!).

Google has an additional alternate representative: Roozbeh Pournader (who is no longer representing Unicode Inc.).

2.4 New voting membership

No new voting members.

2.5 New advisory members

No new advisory members.

2.6 Membership for this meeting

Based on the above information, the total voting membership is 10. The complete list of members (both voting and advisory), as well as the attendance to this meeting is:

Members Attendance
Organization Class Representative Oct 31 Nov 1 Nov 2 Nov 3 Nov 4
Adobe Systems Voting Eric Muller, primary x x x x x
Ken Lunde, alternate     x x  
John O'Conner, alternate          
Apple Voting Peter Edberg, primary x x x x  
John Jenkins, alternate x x x   x
Deborah Goldsmith, alternate          
Lee Collins, alternate          
Yasuo Kida, alternate     x x x
Google Voting Mark Davis, primary x x x x x
Markus Scherer, alternate     x    
Katsuhiko Momoi, alternate     x    
Roozbeh Pournader, alternate x x x x x
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  
Laurentiu Iancu, alternate x x x x x
Rearden Commerce Voting Tex Texin, primary       x x
Craig Cummings, alternate x x x x x
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   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 Linus Tanaka, primary x x x x x
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 (L2/11-355) 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 Craig Cummings that the agenda be approved. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

 

4. Joint UTC/L2 meeting

It was moved by Peter Constable and seconded by Lisa Moore to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/11-354. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

5. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #225

The minutes of meeting L2 #225, August 1-5, 2011, Redmond, document L2/11-264, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by Ken Whistler 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
 

ISO/IEC 14651: 2011/PDAM 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 Eric Muller and seconded by Lisa More to approve ISO/IEC 14651: 2011/PDAM 1 with comments, as recorded in L2/11-329.

The motion passed 10:0:0:0.

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

SC2 N4205
L2/11-333

WD 30112.3 Specification methods for cultural conventions

It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Lisa More to disapprove WD 30112.3 with comments, as recorded in L2/11-437.

The motion passed 10:0:0:0.

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

SC35 N1686
L2/11-424

PDTR 20007, "Information technology — Cultural and Linguistic Interoperability — Definition and relationship between symbols, icons, animated icons, pictograms, characters and glyphs”

It was moved by Peter Constable and seconded by Eric Muller to disapprove PDTR 20007 with comments, as recorded in L2/11-436.

The motion passed 10:0:0:0.

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

SC35 N1743

 

 

7.2 U.S. Contributions to ISO

It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Rick McGowan to send the following documents as US contributions to SC2/WG2:

The motion passed 10:0:0:0.

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

8. International meetings

8.1 Future meetings

 

Subject

Delegation to OWG-SORT #14, WG2 #59

It was moved by Eric Muller and seconded by Craig Cummings to delegate: Peter Constable, Tex Texin, Linus Tanaka, Debbie Anderson, Michel Suignard, Rick McGowan, Lisa Moore, Mark Davis, Roozbeh Pournader, Ken Whistler, Craig Cummings, Richard Cook, Ken Lunde, Peter Edberg, Katsuhiko Momoi, Marcus Scherrer, Yasuo Kida, Eric Muller.

The motion passed 10:0:0:0.

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

Delegation to SC35 GOM & SC 35 WG5, February 2012

Nobody expressed interest in participating to the Kyoto SC 35 meeting.

 

 

9. Upcoming meetings

10. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

11. Adjournment

It was moved by Peter Constable and seconded by Lisa Moore to adjourn the meeting on November 4, 2011, at 4:30 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.