L2/05-369

From: Felix Sasaki
Re: W3C-Unicode Liaison Report
Date: 2005-11-11

- Published "Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N)" [1] as a 
First  Public Working Draft. WS-I18N describes enhancements to SOAP 
messaging to  provide internationalized and localized operation via 
locale and  international preference negotiation. WS I18N also provides 
a  general-purpose mechanism for associating a "locale policy" with 
messages.
- Published "Working with Time Zones" [2] as a Working Group Note. This  
note reflects the discussion between the i18n Core Working Group and 
the  XQuery / XSL Working Groups about XML Schema based, time related 
data type  handling in XQuery.
- Reviewed 12 specifications in Last Call. This encompasses for example  
the XQuery / XSL specifications or WSDL 2.0. For a full list of 
reviews,  see [3].
- Published an updated working draft of "Character Model for the World  
Wide Web 1.0: Normalization" [4]. The main difference from previous  
versions of "charmod-norm" is that it no longer proposes to rely  
exclusively on Early Uniform Normalization.

Current, ongoing and upcoming work:
- Preparing a publication of "Language and Locale Identifiers". Main 
input  to this will be the work of the "ltru" IETF working group [5].
- Starting within the W3C a discussion on IDN security issues. 
Currently  involves Thomas Roessler (works on security, privacy, and 
European policy  issues within the W3C) and Felix Sasaki. Under 
development: A W3C position  on the ICANN guidelines.
- IRI test suite development, possibly with contributions from Martin  
Duerst.
- New member in the Working Group: Justsystem, who have a strong 
interest  in the development of vertical text related specifications.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-i18n-20050914/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-timezone-20051013/
[3] http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-charmod-norm-20051027/
[5] http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html