L2/12-227

Last update: February 22, 2012

Preliminary minutes of INCITS/L2 meeting #227

February 6-10, 2012, Sunnyvale

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Craig Cummings, Chair, convened the meeting on February 6, 2012, at 10:45 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

Craig Cummings assumed the position of the new L2 chair starting in January 2012. He thanked the former chair for his years of service.

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

IBM's requests that Steven Loomis replace V.S. Umamaheswaran as primary representative.

2.4 New voting membership

No new voting members.

2.5 New advisory members

No new advisory members.

2.6 Membership for this meeting

Based on the above information, the total voting membership is 10. The complete list of members (both voting and advisory), as well as the attendance to this meeting is:

3. Approval of the Agenda

An electronic version of the agenda (L2/12-009) 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 items. It was moved by V.S. Umamaheswaran and seconded by Eric Muller that the agenda be approved. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

4. Joint UTC/L2 meeting

It was moved by Eric Muller and seconded by Ken Whistler to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/12-008. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

5. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #226

The minutes of meeting L2 #226, October 31 - Novermber 4, 2011, Redmond, document L2/11-356, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Peter Edberg to accept those minutes. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

6. Reports and liaisons

The Chair briefly introduced the INCITS Committee Management System (ICMS). Members should have all received information to create a login to use ICMS. Some members raised concerns that the window to sign up for ICMS was too short.

The Chair also pointed members to document L2/12-060 entitled "Status of Quick Wins and Pilot projects". The pilot projects section includes possible standards development procedure improvements such as a shorter NWIP vote, simpler DIS administration, and having an optional FDIS.

7. Ballots

7.1 New ballots

7.2 U.S. Contributions to ISO

It was moved by Craig Cummings and seconded by Ken Whistler to send the following documents as US contributions to SC2/WG2:

• L2/11-442R2, Proposal to establish a CJK Unified Ideographs “Urgently Needed Characters” process
• L2/12-087, Proposed Changes to ISO/IEC 10646 Annex I Ideographic description characters
• L2/12-091, More Proposed Additions to 10646

The motion passed 10:0:0:0.

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

7.3 Other ballots

It was moved by Craig Cummings and seconded by Eric Muller to record that L2 has no comments on the following:

• L2/12-068, WD Information technology — User interfaces — Principal voice commands — Part 1: Framework and general guidance
• L2/12-069, WD Information technology — User interfaces — Principal voice commands — Part 4: Management of spoken command registration

The motion passed 10:0:0:0.

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

8. International meetings

8.1 Future meetings

• SC2 #18, Chiang Mai, Thailand (alternative: Berlin, Germany), October 26, 2012

• OWG-SORT #14, Mountain View, CA, USA, February 13-17, 2012
• OWG-SORT #15, Chiang Mai, Thailand (alternative: Berlin, Germany), October 22-26, 2012
• OWG-SORT #16, Berlin, Germany, second quarter 2013

• WG2 #59, Mountain View, CA, USA, February 13-17, 2012
• WG2 #60, Chiang Mai, Thailand (alternative: Berlin, Germany), October 22-26, 2012
• WG2 #61, Berlin, Germany, second quarter 2013

• IRG #38, Gyeongju, Korea, June 18-22, 2012
• IRG #39, Hong Kong, November 12-16, 2012

• SC 35 #26, Kyoto, Japan, February 20-24, 2012
• SC 35 #27, Montréal, Canada, August 27-31, 2012
• SC 35 #28, Latin America, February 25-March 1, 2013 (tentative)
• SC 35 #29, Latin America, August 26-30, 2013 (tentative)

9. Upcoming meetings

• UTC 131/L2 228: May 7-11, 2012, San José, host Adobe
• UTC 132/L2 229: July 30 - August 3, 2012, Redmond, host Microsoft
• UTC 133/L2 230: November 5-9, 2012, Cupertino, host Apple (tentative)
• UTC 134/L2 231: January 28 - February 1, 2012, Sunnyvale, host Yahoo! (tentative)

10. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

11. Adjournment

It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran to adjourn the meeting on February 10, 2012, at 3:15 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.