L2/08-256R

November 7, 2008

Approved minutes for INCITS/L2 meeting #213

Redmond, August 13 – 15, 2008

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on August 13, 2008, at 10am. 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 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

Following the calls for volunteers for the position of International Representative, Deborah Anderson has been appointed to that position by the INCITS Executive Board (L2/08-339). The committee would like to thanks the previous IR, Michel Suignard, for having served in that position for the past 12 years.

The term of office of the current INCITS/L2 Chairman, Eric Muller, will expire in January 2009.  A call for volunteers has been issued (L2/08-324), closing on September 12, 2008.

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:

• Microsoft: Michel Suignard is no longer representing Microsoft; Peter Constable is now the primary representative, and Murray Sargent remains an alternate representative
• Unicode Inc: Michel Suignard is now an alternate representative for Unicode Inc.

2.4 New voting membership

The following organizations have met the pre-requisites for membership and became voting members effective at this meeting:

• NetApp, represented by Tex Texin (principal)

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 12, 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:

3. Approval of the Agenda

An electronic version of the agenda (L2/08-255) 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 Lisa Moore and seconded by Peter Edberg that the agenda be approved as revised. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

4. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #212

The minutes of meeting L2 #212, May 14-16, document L2/08-164, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by V.S.Umamaheswaran and seconded by Rick McGowan to accept those minutes. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

5. Reports and liaisons

6. Ballots

6.1 Letter ballot reports

6.2 New ballots to vote

7. International meetings

7.1 Future meetings

• SC2 #16 Tokushima, Japan, October 30, 2009

• OWG-SORT #8 Hong Kong, China, October 13-17, 2008
  
  
• WG2 #53 Hong Kong, China, October 13-17, 2008
• WG2 #54 SF Bay Area, April 20-24, 2009 (tentative)
• WG2 #55 Tokushima, Japan, week of October 30, 2009

• IRG #31, Kunming, China, November 10 – 14, 2008
• IRG #32, Hong Kong SAR, June 2009 (tentative)

8. Endorsement of joint UTC/L2 meeting recommendations

It was moved by V.S.Umamaheswaran and seconded by Peter Edberg to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/08-254. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

9. Upcoming meetings

• UTC 117/L2 214: November 3-7, 2008, Cupertino, host Apple
• UTC 118/L2 215: February 2-6, 2009, Mountain View, host Unicode
• UTC 119/L2 216: May 11-15, 2009, San José, host Adobe
• UTC 120/L2 217: August 10-14, 2009, Redmond, host Microsoft

10. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

11. Adjournment

It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Rick McGowan to adjourn the meeting on May 15, 2008, at 3:48 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.