L2/08-164R

August 15, 2008

 

 

Approved minutes for INCITS/L2 meeting #212

San José, May 14 – 16, 2008

 

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on May 14, 2008, at 9:46am. 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 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 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.

2.2 Changes in representation since last meeting

The following changes in member representation have occurred since the last meeting:

2.3 New voting membership

The following organizations have met the pre-requisites for membership and became voting members effective at this meeting:

2.4 New advisory members

The following organizations have applied for membership:

2.5 Membership for this meeting

Based on the above information, the total voting membership is 11, 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 May 14 May 15 May 16
Adobe Systems Voting Eric Muller, primary x x x
Ken Lunde, alternate     x
Apple Voting Deborah Goldsmith, primary     x
John Jenkins, alternate      
Peter Edberg, alternate x x x
Lee Collins, alternate      
Google Voting Mark Davis, primary x x x
Hewlett-Packard Voting Lynn Ruggles, primary      
Susan Kline, alternate      
IBM Voting V.S.Umamaheswaran x x x
Lisa Moore, alternate x x x
Microsoft Voting Michel Suignard, primary   x x
Peter Constable, alternate x x x
Murray Sargent, alternate x x  
NetApp Advisory Tex Texin, primary x    
Sun Microsystems Voting Ienup Sung, primary x x x
Naoto Sato, alternate      
Sybase Voting Ken Whistler, primary x x x
Ian MacLeod, alternate      
Unicode Voting Rick McGowan x x x
Mike Ksar, alternate   x  
Richard Cook, alternate      
University of California at Berkeley Voting Deborah Anderson, primary x x x
Yahoo! Voting Craig Cummings, primary x x  
Norbert Lindenberg, alternate      
Mike McKenna, alternate     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 (L2/08-163) 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 Rick McGowan that the agenda be approved as revised. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

 

4. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #211

The minutes of meeting L2 #211, February 4-8, 2008, document L2/08-006, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded byV.S.Umamaheswaran to accept those minutes. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

 

5. Reports and liaisons

5.1 SC2

5.2 WG2

5.3 OWG-SORT

 

6. Ballots

6.1 Letter ballot reports

Doc# Subject Source INCITS
Due Date
Approval
Criteria

L2/08-167L2/08-168
L2/08-169

ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FDAM 4, Information technology – Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) – AMENDMENT 4: Lanna, Cham, Game Tiles, and other characters SC2 N3998 April 25, 2008 2/3

Resolved 9:0:0:1 to approve without comments.

For: Adobe, Apple, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, Unicode
Against: none
Abstain: none
No vote: Yahoo!

6.2 International ballot reports

Doc# Subject Source INCITS
Due Date
Approval
Criteria
L2/08-010 ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 5, Information technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) - AMENDMENT 5: Tai Tham, Tai Viet, Avestan, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C, and other characters SC2 N3982 March 6, 2008 2/3
Summary of Voting: SC2 N4004
Disposition of comments: SC2 N4022 (= L2/08-190)
L2/08-008 ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/PDAM 6, Information technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) - AMENDMENT 6: Imperial Aramaic, Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and other characters SC2 N3989 March 4, 2008 2/3
Summary of Voting: SC2 N4003
Resolution of comments: SC2 N4023 (= L2/08-191)

6.3 New ballots to vote

Doc# Subject Source INCITS
Due Date
Approval
Criteria
  Delegation to international meeting IRG #30     1/2
It was moved by V.S.Umamaheswaran and seconded by Eric Muller to approve the delegation as listed in document L2/08-229. The resolution was approved 10:0:0:1.

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

 

7. International meetings

7.1 Future meetings

7.2 Hosting of WG2 #54

At meeting WG2 #52, the US delegation offered to host meeting WG2 #54, conditional on the required approvals and availability of facilities. The Unicode Consortium offered to provide the necessary secreterial support and to secure appropriate facilities. It was moved by Rick McGowan and seconded by Eric Muller to support the invitation and to seek approval from INCITS and ANSI. The motion passed by unanimous consent.

 

8. Endorsement of joint UTC/L2 meeting recommendations

It was moved by V.S.Umamaheswaran and seconded by Lisa Moore to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/08-162. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

9. KS X 1026-1:2007

It was moved by V.S.Umamaheswaran and seconded by Mike Mike McKenna to send document L2/08-228 to SC2. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

 

10. Upcoming meetings

 

11. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

 

12. Adjournment

It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Rick McGowan to adjourn the meeting on May 16, 2008, at 3:48 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.