| DOC TYPE: | Resolutions |
| TITLE:
| Resolutions of the Eighth Plenary Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 2 held in Redmond, Washington, US!
A, 1998-03-24/25 |
| SOURCE: | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 |
| PROJECT: | -- |
| STATUS: | Resolutions adopted at the eighth plenary meeting of ISO/IECJTC 1/SC 2. |
| ACTION ID: | FYI |
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| DISTRIBUTION: | P, O and L Members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 WG Conveners, Secretariats ISO/IEC JTC 1 Secretariat ISO/IEC ITTF |
| NO. OF PAGES: | 9!
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| ACCESS LEVEL: | Open |
| WEB ISSUE #: | 012 |
The following 14 national bodies, and 7 liaisonorganizations were represented when the following resolutions were discussedand adopted:
Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland,Ireland, Netherlands, Japan, Poland, Sweden, and USA, JTC 1/WG 5, SC 22,SC 32, Unicode, AFII, CEN/TC 304 and GSE. France by proxy on 8859-15; UKby proxy.
JTC 1 Matters:
RESOLUTION M08.01: Response to CAW Recommendations
With reference to CAW Recommendation 1 (TechnicalDirection) and 4 (Placement of SC 2, JTC 1/WG 5 and SC 22/WG 20) containedin JTC 1 N 5219 (SC 2 N 3027), SC 2 recommends to JTC 1 that the proposedTechnical Direction consist of a single SC with a scope reflecting culturaladaptability requirem! ents.
Further, SC 2 endorses CAW Recommendation 2 (Process),5 (Response to CALS), and 6 (Responsibility and Visibility) and SC 2 endorsesRecommendation 3 (Elaborations) in principle.
RESOLUTION M08.02: Publication of SC 2 Standards on the web
With reference to Resolution 32 of the JTC 1 Ottawa Plenary (JTC 1 N5018) and JTC 1 N 5165 (SC 2 N 3019), SC 2 proposes free access of thestandards including all their published parts, amendments and corrigendalisted below since SC 2 standards are the basis for all the IT Technologies,being referenced by many Internet standards and used by almost all Internetusers everyday.
ISO/IEC 10646
ISO/IEC 2022
ISO/IEC 8859
Further, SC 2 requests JTC 1 to seek the approval of ISO Council topost the following standard on the web in addition to the above mentionedstandards:!
ISO/IEC 646
SC 2 recommends to JTC 1 in response to the five year periodical reviewas follows:
RESOLUTION M08.04: Transfer of OCR-B Reference Material
SC 2 instructs its Secretariat to ask ECMA and NIST to transfer OCRReference Materials to SC 2 Secretariat for archival purpose. SC 2 Secretariatis further instructed to maintain the archive until a suitable organizationwill! take the responsibility.
SC 2 accepts the WG 2 proposal for the subrepertoire registration ascollection identifiers contained in SC 2 N 3057 and accepts the WG 3 recommendationM13.12 to cancel the revision of ISO 7350.
RESOLUTION M08.06: Registration Practice
SC 2 instructs the Registration Authority to propose revision of Practiceof Registration with the assistance from Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and Greece.SC 2 invites Ireland to draft a document addressing potential changes torelated SC 2 Standards with the purpose to align the layout of registrationswith that o! f 8859 standards.
SC 2 welcomes the offer from the Registration Authority to publish ISOIR on the Web. SC 2 also notes that the official mirror site of ISO IRwill be in Denmark at dkuug.
With reference to WG 3 Resolution M13.11 (SC 2 N 3072 R), SC 2 instructsits Secretariat to conduct a DCOR Letter ballot to change the name andaddress of the registration authority from ECMA to IPSJ/ITSCJ.
RESOLUTION M08.09: Progression of DTR 15285 on Character Glyph Model
SC 2 approves the disposition of comments on DTR 15285 proposed by WG2 (SC 2 N 3049). SC 2 instructs its Secretariat to forward the revisedtext prepared by Project editors to ITTF for publication.
SC 2 approves the disposition of comments on DCOR 2 to 106461-1 proposedby WG 2 (SC 2 N 3051). SC 2 instructs its Secretariat to forward the revisedtext prepared by Project Editor to ITTF for publication.
SC 2 ! approves the disposition of comments on FPDAMs 13, 16, 19 and 20proposed by WG 2 (SC 2 N 3053, N 3054, N 3055, N 3056). SC 2 instructsits Secretariat to forward the revised texts prepared by Project Editorto ITTF for a two-month FDAM ballot.
SC 2 approves the recommendation from WG 2 on the further processingof this project and instructs its secretariat to conduct a combined PDAMregistration and FPDAM consideration letter ballot upon receipt of thetext from the project editor.
SC 2 approves the following subdivision proposals of Project 02.18.01contained in SC 2 N 3062 and i! nstructs its secretariat to forward theseproposals to JTC 1 for endorsement.
a) 02.18.01.23 (Proposed): Bopomofo and various characters
Active participating P-members: 6 (US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Finland,China)
b) 02.18.01.24 (Proposed): Thaana script
Active participating P-members: 5 (US, Ireland, UK, Canada, Denmark)
c) 02.18.01.25 (Proposed) Khmer Script
Active participating P-members: 6 (US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Denmark,Japan )
d) 02.18.01.26 (Proposed) Burmese Script
Active participating P-members: 6 (US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Denmark,Japan )
e) 02.18.01.27 (Proposed) Syriac script
Active participating P-members: 6 (US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Denmark,Greece)
f) 02.18.01.28 (Proposed) Ideographic Description Sequences
Active participating P-members: 7 (US, UK,Ireland, Canada, Denmark, Japan, China)
SC 2 approves the progression of the proposed subprojects as follows:
| a) 02.18.01.23 (Proposed) Bopomofo and Various characters: | FPDAM |
| b) 02.18.01.24 (Proposed) Thaana script: | PDAM |
| c) 02.18.01.25 (Proposed) Khmer Script | PDAM |
| d) 02.18.01.26 (Proposed) Burmese Script | PDAM |
| e) 02.18.01.27 (Proposed) Syriac script | PDAM |
| f) 02.18.01.28 (Proposed) Ideographic Description Sequences | PDAM |
SC 2 accepts the recommendation from WG 2 and approves the updated scopeof 10646 Part 2 contained in SC 2 N 3058. SC 2 instructs its Secretariatto forward this new scope to JTC 1 for endorsement.
SC 2 instructs its Secretariat to register WG 2 N 1717 as the firstWorking Draft of this project and to circulate it to the SC 2 nationalbodies for review and comment together with WG 2 N 1670.
RESOLUTION M08.17: Further processing of DIS 8859-2, 3, 5, 6, 8,9, 14
SC 2 approves the disposition of comments on the following DISs proposedby WG 3:
DIS 8859-2 - Latin 2 (SC 2 N 3065)
DIS 8859-3 - Latin 3 (SC 2 N 3066)
DIS 8859-5 - Latin/Cyrillic (SC 2 N 3074)
DIS 8859-6 - Latin/Arabic (SC 2 N 3075)
DIS 8859-8 - Latin/Hebrew (SC 2 N 3069)
DIS 8859-9 - Latin 5 (SC 2 N 3076)
DIS 8859-14 - Latin 8 (Celtic) (SC 2 N 3070)
SC 2 endorses the recommendation of WG 3 and instructs its Secretariatto submit the final texts to ITTF for publication as soon as these textsare available from the WG 3 Convenor.
SC 2 appreciates WG 3 for their review of the disposition of commentson DIS 8859-13 su! bmitted by Project Editor (SC 2 N 3035) and approves therevised disposition of comments contained in SC 2 N 3074. SC 2 instructsits Secretariat to submit new final text to ITTF for publication as soonas the text is available from the WG 3 Convener.
SC 2 reviewed the disposition of comments proposed by WG 3 containedin SC 2 N 3071 and recommends its Secretariat to forward the revised textof FCD to a FDIS ballot as soon as text is available from the WG 3 Convener,in consultation with the ITTF. SC 2 Secretariat is requested to informthe SC 2 members of the results of communication with the ITTF.
With reference to WG 3 Resolution M13. 07 (N 3072 R), SC 2 approvesthe recommendation from WG 3 and instructs its secretariat to conduct acombined CD registration and consideration ballot upon receipt of a revisedtext prepared by the Project editor and sent to the SC 2 Secretariat viathe WG 3 Convener, after six week consultation within WG 3.
SC 2 accepts WG 3 Resolution M13.09 on Combining Characters.
RESOLUTION M08.23: Target Dates
SC 2 approves the target dates proposed by WG 2 and WG 3 containedin SC 2 N 3048 R and N 3072 R respectively and instructs its secretariatto modify its Programme of Work accordingly.
RESOLUTION M08.23: Cancellation of Liaison
SC 2 reviewed its Liaison activities and confirms that the liaisonrelationship with the following organizations is not needed anymore. SC2 instructs its Secretariat to take necessary action for cancellation.
ISO/TC 39: Machine Tool
ISO/TC 42: Photography
ISO/TC 130: Graphic Technology
IEC/SC 65C: Digital Communica!
tions
RESOLUTION M08.24: Creation of Contributing Editor Position
SC 2 endorses WG 2 recommendation to create a formal position for a"Contribution Editor" in SC 2 whose primary responsibility is to assista project editor in the preparation of SC 2 documents, in recognition oftheir extensive contribution to the progress of work in the WGs. A contributingeditor cannot submit documents directly to SC 2 and ITTF.
SC 2 appoints its new project editor as follows:
Michel Suignard 02.18.02 (10646-2)
SC 2 re-appoints its the project editors as follows:
WG 2 Editors:
| J. B. Paterson | Project 1.02.18.01 (10646-1) and all its subprojects |
| A. Griffee | 02.15285 (Character Glyph TR) |
| E. Hart | 02.15285 (Character Glyph TR) |
| B. Surayuth | 02.20.11 (Latin/Thai) |
| M. Everson | 02.20.14 (Celtic) |
| S. Fuchs | 02.20.08 (Latin/Hebrew) |
| A. LaBonté | 02.20.15 (Latin 9) |
| K. I. Larsson | 02.26 (OCR-B) 02. 15907 (TR on OCR-B), 02.20.04(Latin 4),! 02.10 (Latin 10) |
| E. Melagrakis | 02.20.07 (Latin/Greek) |
| I. Metra | 02.20.13 (Latin 7) |
| J. B. Paterson | 02.02 (2022), 02.20.01 (Latin 1) |
| K. Sherif | 02.20.06 (Latin/Arabic), 02.19 (9036) |
| K. Simonsen | 02.14.01/02 (6937) |
| J. van Wingen | 02.16 (7350), 02.20.02 (Latin 2), 02.20.03 (Latin 3), 02.20.05(Latin/Cyrillic), 02.20.11 (Latin/Thai), 02.20.09 (Latin 5), 02.20.13 (Latin7), 02.22 (10367) |
SC 2 appoints its contributing editors as follows:
| Michael Everson | 02.18.01 and 02 (10646-1 and 2) |
| Chen Zhuang | 02.18.01 and 02 (10646-1 and 2) |
| Keld Simonsen | 02.18.01 (10646-1) |
SC 2 appoints Zhang Zhoucai as the Rapporteur of WG 2 Ideographic RapporteurGroup.
SC 2 appoints its Liaison representatives as follows:
| ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 5 | A. LaBonté |
| ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 | K. Shibano |
| ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 | J. van Wingen |
| ISO/TC 46/SC 2 | M. Everson |
| GSE | A. LaBonté |
| ISOC | K. Simonsen |
| ITU-T | E. Melagrakis (interim) |
| CEN TC 304 | K. Simonsen, Mike Ksar |
RESOLUTION M08.30: Advisory Group
SC 2 approves the establishment of an advisory group in response tothe JTC 1 re-engineering activities. SC 2 approves the following tentativemeeting schedule.
1998-09 : London (pending consultation with BSI)
Note: If there is no urgent action item from the JTC 1 Sendai meeting,this meeting will not be convened.
SC 2 approves the future meeting schedule as follows:
1999-03-23/24: Tokyo (Tentative), Japan
2000-09 : Denmark (Backup: Greece)
2001-09 : North America
2002-09 : Asia
2003-09 : Europe (Backup: Greece)
a) Appreciation to Host
SC 2 expresses its sincere appreciation to the US National Body (ANSI)for hosting the eighth Plenary meeting of SC 2. In particular, SC 2 expressesits appreciation to Microsoft Corporation and its staff, especially Mr.Michel Suignard, and to the Unicode Consortium (Dr. Julie Allen) for providingexcellent secretarial and administrative support. SC 2 further extendsits thanks to Microsoft Corporation and the Unicode Consortium for theirkind hospita! lity.
b) Appreciation to Secretary
SC 2 expresses its sincere appreciation to theSC 2 Secretary for providing administrative supports before and duringthe meeting.
c) Appreciation to dkuug
SC 2 expresses its sincere appreciation to dkuugfor providing and maintaining the SC 2 website.