L2/06-299R

November 10, 2006

 

 

Approved minutes for INCITS/L2 meeting #205

Seattle, August 8 – 11, 2006

 

Meeting location: Seattle, hosted by Adobe. Logistics at http://www.unicode.org/timesens/logistics-utc108.html

1. Opening of L2 meeting - remarks from the chair

2. Joint meeting with UTC

3. Administrative Agenda

3.1. Attendance and membership

Membership: Adobe, Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, RLG, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, Yahoo! (10)

Members in jeopardy: (0)

Members present: Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, Yahoo! (6)

Observers: Google.

3.2 Approval of agenda [L2/06-280R]

3.3 Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #204 [L2/06-219R]

The minutes from L2 #204 are approved by unanimous consent.

3.4 Action items follow-up

See L2/SD-2 for the current action items.

3.5 Registration of new documents and assignment to the agenda

See L2/SD-3 for the current document register.

3.6 Upcoming meetings

UTC 109/L2 206 - November 7 – 10, 2006, San José, host Adobe

UTC 110/L2 207 - February 6 – 9, 2007, Mountain View, host Unicode

UTC 111/L2 208 - May 15 – 18, 2007, Mountain View, host Google

UTC 112/L2 209 - August 7 – 10, 2007, Redmond, host Microsoft

4 Reports and liaisons

4.1 SC2/WG2

4.2 SC2

5 Ballots

5.1 New ballots to vote

Doc# Subject Source INCITS
Due Date		 Approval
Criteria
L2/06-223, cover letter, text ISO/IEC 10646:2003/PDAM 3.2, Information Technology – Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) – Amendment 3: Lepcha, Ol Chiki, Suarashtra, Vai, and other characters SC2 N3875 September 6, 2006 2/3
7:0:0:3 to approve with comments, as documented in L2/06-297.

For: Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, Yahoo!
Absent: Apple, HP, RLG
L2/06-283, cover letter, text ISO/IEC CD 14651:2006, Information Technology – International string ordering and comparison – Method for comparing character strings and description of the common template tailorable ordering SC2 N3876 September 13, 2006 2/3
7:0:0:3 to approve with comment:

It is very important to the US national body that the tables stay stable and in synchronization with UCA version 5.0 because of the implementation requirements of vendors. Potential corrections to the tables should be accomodated in a future revision or amendment of the standard.

For: Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, Yahoo!
Absent: Apple, HP, RLG

5.2 L2 Letter ballot reports

No letter ballot since the last meeting.

6 Voting on joint UTC/L2 meeting recommendations [L2/06-232]

The motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting are adopted as L2 motions and consensus by unanimous consent.

7 Delegates to meetings

SC 2/WG 2, September 25–29, 2006, Tokyo, Japan: Asmus Freytag, Michel Suignard, Ken Whistler.

SC 2/OWG Sort, September 25–29, 2006, Tokyo, Japan: Asmus Freytag, Michel Suignard, Ken Whistler.

8 Other

9 Adjournment