This is the preliminary agenda for the joint UTC/L2 meeting on December 1-3.

Agenda items have been grouped by priority, rather than classified by
subject.

Certain items have been assigned to a particular day, to accommodate guests
who cannot attend the whole meeting.

Many draft and proposed draft UTRs are on the agenda.  You will find these
on the Unicode Web site.

You will need to dig through your back files of L2 documents for many of
the script proposals.

-- Joan Aliprand
   Chair, UTC

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Draft Agenda - UTC #78 & NCITS Subgroup L2 #175 joint meeting
              San Jose, CA -- December 1-3, 1998
                       Hosted by Novell, Inc.

This meeting will begin at 2 PM on Tuesday, December 1, and will continue
until 5 PM on Thursday, December 3.

It will be preceded by the Annual Members' Meeting of the Unicode
Consortium (10:30 am - 1 pm).  This meeting is for representatives of Full
Members and Unicode Officers only.

The L2 Plenary meeting will be held on Friday, December 4.


TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1

A. Administrative Issues

   1. UTC membership roll call
      a. Call for proxies
      b. Roll call
   2. Declaration of joint meeting
   3. Registration of new documents
   4. Approval of joint meeting agenda
   5. Minutes and action items
      a. Approval of minutes of Joint Meeting UTC #77 & L2 #174
      b. Review of action items  [L2/SD2]
   6. Review of meeting calendar
      Calendar posted at
        http://www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html
      Note: IRG #12 will be held Dec. 7-11, 1998

BEGINNING ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 THROUGH SUBSEQUENT DAYS

B. Agenda Topics of Highest Priority

   1.  Consent docket for WG2 Actions
   2.  Prioritization of Scripts (McGowan)
   3.  Draft UTR #11: East Asian Character Width (Freytag)
   4.  Draft UTR #13: Unicode Newline Guidelines (Davis)
   5.  Draft UTR #14: Line Breaking Properties (Freytag)
   6.  Proposed Draft UTR #16: UTF-8-EBCDIC (Umamaheswaran)
   7.  Criteria for Encoding Symbols (Freytag)

ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2

C. Agenda Topics of Highest Priority
   1.  Draft UTR #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm (Davis)
   2.  Draft UTR #15: Unicode Normalization Forms (Davis)
   3.  Proposed Draft UTR #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines
         (Davis)
   4.  Errata to Unicode 2.0 and 2.1 (Standing Item)(Whistler)
   5.  Remaining topics from Section B.

ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3

D. Agenda Topics of Highest Priority
   1. Math (Sargent)
   5.  Remaining topics from Section C.

FOLLOWING COMPLETION OF ALL HIGHEST PRIORITY TOPICS

C. Medium Priority

   1. Arabic script proposal (Davis & Mansour) [L2/98-274]

   2. German penny symbol (Duensser/Whistler) [L2/98-309]
      * Will be in next mailing *

   3. ZW NO LIGATION (Davis)
       
   4. Reserving unassigned characters for 'invisibles' (Davis)

TO BE TAKEN UP IF TIME PERMITS

D. Proposals for scripts

   1. Philippine Scripts (McGowan/Everson) [L2/98-217]
      * PDF copy of this proposal accessible from document list *

   2. Egyptian Hieroglyphics (McGowan/Everson)
      a. Basic Egyptian Hieroglyphics (Plane 1) [L2/97-267]
      b. Encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphics [L2/97-266]
      c. Mirroring & rotation

   3. Other scripts proposed for BMP (McGowan)
      a. Avestan [L2/98-031]
      b. Buginese [L2/98-021]
      c. Cham [L2/97-124] and [L2/97-143]
      d. Glagolitic [L2/98-023]
      e. Phoenician [WG2 N1579]

   4. Other scripts proposed for Plane 1 (McGowan)
      a. Meroitic [L2/97-268]
      b. Old Permic [L2/98-034]
      c. Old Persian Cuneiform [L2/97-269]
      d. Ugaritic Cuneiform [L2/97-270]

D. Reports on Scripts (McGowan)

   1. Ol script (McGowan)

   2. Plane 1 proposals
      a. South Arabian [L2/98-036]
      b. Sinaitic [L2/98-035]
      c. Old Hungarian [L2/98-033]
      d. Brahmi [L2/98-032]

4 PM THURSDAY

E. Closing

   1. Review of recommendations to L2 and UTC motions
   2. Review of action items from this meeting
   3. UTC position on current ballots (Winkler)
   4. Closing of joint meeting