Approved minutes for INCITS/L2 meeting #207

L2/07-018R

April 23, 2007

Approved minutes for INCITS/L2 meeting #207

Mountain View, February 6 – 9, 2007

Meeting location: Mountain View, hosted by Unicode. Logistics at http://www.unicode.org/timesens/logistics-utc110.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, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, Yahoo! (9)

Members in jeopardy: (0)

Members present: Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, Yahoo!

Members absent: HP

Observers: Google

3.2 Approval of agenda [L2/07-017]

3.3 Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #206 [L2/06-327]

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 111/L2 208 - May 14 – 18, 2007, Mountain View, host Google

UTC 112/L2 209 - August 6 – 10, 2007, Redmond, host Microsoft

UTC 113/L2 210 - October 17 – 19, 2007, San José, host IUC/Adobe

UTC 114/L2 211 - February 5 – 8, 2008, Cupertino, host Apple

4. Reports and liaisons

4.1 SC2

4.2 WG2

Call for volunteers - Convener, JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 - Universal Coded Character Set (L2/07-072).

4.3 IRG

4.4 CT22

Call for volunteers - Chairman, JTC 1/SC 22 - Programming Languages, Their Environments and Systems Software Interfaces (L2/07-081).

5. Ballots

5.1 Letter ballot reports

Doc#	Subject	Source	INCITS Due Date	Approval Criteria
L2/07-025	ISO 4217 – Financial Services – Codes for the representation of currencies and funds; Amendment 1		January 29, 2007	2/3
Resolved 8:0:0:1 to reply to X9: Thank you very much for taking into account L2’s comments in the revision of ISO 4217. We believe that the resulting changes represent a significant improvement and accommodate adequately the most important comments. In response to the yellow sticky note on page 5 of the Amendment, about Madagascar: It should be spelled “Malagasy ariary”a (133,000 Google hits), not “Malagascy ariary” (65 Google hits). For: Adobe, Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, Unicode. Against: none Abstain: none No vote: Yahoo!

Doc#

Subject

Source

INCITS
Due Date

Approval
Criteria

L2/07-025

ISO 4217 – Financial Services – Codes for the representation of currencies and funds; Amendment 1

January 29, 2007

2/3

Resolved 8:0:0:1 to reply to X9:

Thank you very much for taking into account L2’s comments in the revision of ISO 4217. We believe that the resulting changes represent a significant improvement and accommodate adequately the most important comments.

In response to the yellow sticky note on page 5 of the Amendment, about Madagascar: It should be spelled “Malagasy ariary”a (133,000 Google hits), not “Malagascy ariary” (65 Google hits).

For: Adobe, Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, Unicode.
Against: none
Abstain: none
No vote: Yahoo!

5.2 New ballots to vote

Doc#	Subject	Source	INCITS Due Date	Approval Criteria
L2/06-406: ballot, text, Am3names.txt, JIExt.txt	ISO/IEC 10646:2003/FPDAM 3, Information Technology – Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) – Amendment 3: Lepcha, Ol Chiki, Suarashtra, Vai, and other characters	SC2 N3909	March 19, 2007	2/3
Resolved 8:0:0:1 to approve with comments, as documented in L2/07-078. For: Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: HP
L2/06-407: ballot, text, Am4names.txt, CJKU_SR.txt	ISO/IEC 10646:2003/PDAM 4, Information Technology – Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) – Amendment 4: Lanna, Cham, Game Tiles, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C, and other characters	SC2 N3914	February 27, 2007	2/3
Resolved 8:0:0:1 to disapprove with comments, as documented in L2/07-079. Satisfying comment T.1 would change the vote to an “approve”. For: Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: HP
L2/06-405	Proposed Modification to the SC 2 Programme of Work	JTC1 N8444	February 01, 2006	2/3
Resolved 8:0:0:1 to approve For: Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, Unicode, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: HP

6. International meetings

6.1 Future meetings

SC2 #15, Hangzhou, China, September 21, 2007 (tentative)

WG2 #50, Frankfurt, Germany, April 23 – 27, 2007
WG2 #51 Hangzhou, China, September 17 – 21, 2007 (co-located with SC2 #15)
WG2 #52 Taipei - TCA, Spring 2008 (backup: Seoul, R. O. Korea)
WG2 #53 London, UK, Fall 2008 (tentative)
WG2 #54 Seeking host, Spring 2009

IRG #28, Xi'an, China, June 4 – 8, 2007
IRG #29, San José, USA, November 12 – 16
IRG #30, Kunming, Yunnan, China, June 2008
IRG #31, IRG is seeking host, November 2008
IRG #32, Busan (RO Korea), June 2009, (tentative, needs approval from authority)

SC2/OWG Sort #5, co-located with WG2 #50 meeting
SC2/OWG Sort #6, co-located with WG2 #51 meeting
SC2/OWG Sort #7, co-located with WG2 #52 meeting
SC2/OWG Sort #8, co-located with WG2 #53 meeting

6.2 Delegates to WG2 #50

WG2 meeting #50 will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, on April 23-27, 2007. Logistics and the registration form are available as L2/06-400.

Delegation: Michel Suignard (HoD), Asmus Freytag, Ken Whistler.

6.3 Delegates to SC2/OWG Sort #5

SC2/OWG Sort meeting #5 will be co-located with WG2 meeting #50. No call for participation has been issued at this time.

Delegation: Michel Suignard (HoD), Asmus Freytag, Ken Whistler, Mark Davis.

6.4 Delegates to IRG #28

IRG meeting #28 wil be held in Xi'an, China, on June 4-8, 2007. No call for participation has been issued at this time.

Invited experts: John Jenkins, Richard Cook

7. Voting on joint UTC/L2 meeting recommendations [L2/07-016]

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

8. Other

8.1 IDSP Survey

In response to the Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel (IDSP) survey (L2/07-074), L2 resoved unanimously to list ISO/IEC 10646:2003 (with Amendments 1 and 2), Unicode Technical Standard # 39, and Unicode Technical Report #36.

8.2 ISO/IEC CD 19757-7

ISO/IEC CD 19757-7 – Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL) – Part 7: Character Repertoire Description Language (L2/06-397): L2 resolved unanimously to forward L2/07-077, Comments on ISO/IEC CD 9757-7, to INCITS V1, the responsible US Tag.

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