L2/01-019

From:  Arnold F. Winkler
Date:  January 5, 2001

Friends,

NCITS is having good success with making JTC1 standards available in electronic form for very reasonable prices.  A new initiative is to bundle families of standards onto one CD and sell them together.  

An L2 related example could be to bundle: 
ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 - Universal Character Set, part 1, 
ISO/IEC 10646-2 - Universal Character Set, part 2, and
ISO/IEC TR 15285 - Model for characters and glyphs;
and possibly even
ISO/IEC TR 11017 - Framework for Internationalization; 
ISO/IEC TR 10176 - Guide for the development of standards, and 
ISO/IEC 14651 - International string ordering
on one CD-ROM

This would allow implementers to get many of the relevant standards for I18N on one CD for one low price.  

L2 is requested to recommend a few of these "families" of related standards that would be sold together.  

Please think of reasonable combinations of standards (don't forget the 8-bit stuff either) and prepare contributions to the L2 meeting in Mountain View or send me e-mails with your suggestions.  I will prepare a list of recommended "families" and submit them to NCITS for their consideration.

Thanks for your support

Arnold