L2/09-338

Last update: February 17, 2010

Approved minutes for INCITS/L2 meeting #218

November 2-6, 2009, Cupertino

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on November 2, 2009, at 10:30 am. 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 (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.

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 Officers

2.2 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.

2.3 Changes in representation since last meeting

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

• Google: Markus Scherer and Katsuhiko Momoi are new alternate representatives. Mark Davis remains the primary representative.

2.4 New voting membership

No organization gained voting membership since the last meeting.

2.5 New advisory members

No organization has applied for membership since the last meeting.

2.6 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:

2.7 2010 Membership dues

The chair reminded the that INCITS membership period starts on December 1, and that invoices should have been received.

3. Approval of the Agenda

An electronic version of the agenda (L2/09-337) 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 Eric Muller and seconded by Ken Whistler. that the agenda be approved. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

4. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #217

The minutes of meeting L2 #217, August 10-14, 2009, document L2/09-228, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Peter Constable to accept those minutes. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

5. Reports and liaisons

No reports.

5.1 New JTC1 procedures

5.2 Document submission process

6. Ballots

A summary of recent international ballots is available at http://www.unicode.org/L2/L-notice.htm.

6.1 International ballot reports

6.2 Letter ballot results

No letter ballot was issued since the last meeting.

6.3 New ballots

No new ballots to vote on.

6.4 U.S. Contributions to ISO

No US contributions from this meeting.

7. International meetings

7.1 Future meetings

• OWG-SORT #11, San José, CA, USA, April 19-23, 2010
  

• WG2 #56, San José, CA, USA, April 19-23, 2010
• WG2 #57, Republic of Korea, fall 2010 (tentative)
• WG2 #58, Finland, spring 2011 (tentative)
• WG2 #59, Mountain View, CA, USA, fall 2011 (tentative)

• IRG #33, Danang, Vietnam, November 23-27, 2009 tentative (Pending approval)
• IRG #34, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 2010 (Pending approval)
• IRG #35, Macao SAR, November 2010 (Pending approval)
• IRG #36, Japan, June 2011 (Pending approval)

• Old Hanzi Group Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/IRG, Beijing, China, November 11-13, 2009

8. Joint UTC/L2 meeting recommendations

It was moved by Eric Muller and seconded by Peter Edberg to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/09-336. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

9. Upcoming meetings

• UTC 122/L2 219: February 1-5, 2010, Mountain View, host Unicode
• UTC 123/L2 220: May 10-14, 2010-, San José, host Adobe
• UTC 124/L2 221: August 9-13, 2010, Redmond, host Microsoft
• UTC 125/L2 222: November 1-5, 2010, Cupertino, host Apple

10. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

11. Adjournment

It was moved by Eric Muller and seconded by Lisa Moore to adjourn the meeting on August 14, 2009, at 3:43 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.