February 9, 2009
Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on November 5, 2008, at 9:45 am. He introduced himself as Chair.
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.
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.
Following the calls for volunteers for the position of Chair, Eric Muller has been appointed to that position by the INCITS Executive Board (L2/08-424). His second term begins in January 2009 and will expire in January 2012.
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.
The following changes in member representation have occurred since the last meeting:
No organization has applied for membership since the last meeting.
Based on the above information, the total voting membership is 12, 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 | ||||
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| Organization | Class | Representative | November 5 | November 6 | November 7 |
| Adobe Systems | Voting | Eric Muller, primary | x | x | x |
| Ken Lunde, alternate | |||||
| Apple | Voting | Deborah Goldsmith, primary | x | ||
| John Jenkins, alternate | x | ||||
| Peter Edberg, alternate | x | x | x | ||
| Lee Collins, alternate | |||||
| Voting | Mark Davis, primary | x | x | x | |
| Hewlett-Packard | Voting | Susan Kline, primary | |||
| IBM | Voting | V.S.Umamaheswaran, primary | |||
| Lisa Moore, alternate | x | x | x | ||
| Microsoft | Voting | Peter Constable, primary | x | x | x |
| Murray Sargent, alternate | x | x | |||
| NetApp | Voting | Tex Texin, primary | |||
| Sun Microsystems | Voting | Ienup Sung, primary | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Michel Suignard, alternate | x | x | x | ||
| University of California at Berkeley | Voting | Deborah Anderson, primary | x | x | x |
| Yahoo! | Voting | Craig Cummings, primary | x | x | x |
| Norbert Lindenberg, alternate | |||||
| Mike McKenna, alternate | |||||
| Federal Communications Commission | Liaison | Donald Draper-Campbell | |||
| INCITS/PL22.4 | Liaison | Ann Bennett | |||
| Library of Congress | Liaison | Randall K. Barry | |||
| Sally McCallum | |||||
An electronic version of the agenda (L2/08-363) 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 Peter Constable and seconded by Lisa Moore that the agenda be approved as revised. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.
The minutes of meeting L2 #213, August 13-15, 2008, document L2/08-256, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by Mark Davis and seconded by Ken Whistler to accept those minutes. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.
A revised version of INCITS/RD-2, Organization and Procedures, was posted on November 5, 2008 and is available at http://www.incits.org/rd2/in081453.pdf (see L2/08-416).
A summary of recent international ballots is available at http://www.unicode.org/L2/L-notice.htm.
| Doc# | Subject | Source | INCITS Due Date |
Approval Criteria |
| ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/PDAM 6.2, Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- AMENDMENT 6: Javanese, Lisu, Meetei Mayek, Samaritan, and other characters | SC2 N4028 | September 10, 2008 | 2/3 | |
Summary of Voting: SC2 N4034 |
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| L2/08-321 | ISO/IEC 14651/PDAM 1, Information technology -- International string ordering and comparison -- Method for comparing character strings and description of the common template tailorable ordering -- AMENDMENT 1 | SC2 N4031 | 2/3 |
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| Summary of Voting: SC2 N4036 Disposition of comments SC2 N4038 |
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| Doc# | Subject | Source | INCITS Due Date |
Approval Criteria |
| L2/08-391 | Project Subdivision Proposal for ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/Amendment 7 |
SC2 N4041 | December 8, 2008 | 2/3 |
It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Peter Edberg to approve the project subdivision proposal for ISO/IEC 10646:2003/Amendment 7. The resolution was approved 11:0:0:1.
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It was moved by Mark Davis and seconded by Peter Constable to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/08-362. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.
Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.
It was moved by Mark Davis and seconded by Craig Cummings to adjourn the meeting on November 7, 2008, at 3:20 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.