Approved minutes for INCITS/L2 meeting #219

L2/10-018

Last update: May 14, 2010

Approved minutes for INCITS/L2 meeting #219

February 1-5, 2010, Mountain View

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on February 1, 2010, at 10:50 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

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.

NetApp did not renew their membership.

2.3 Changes in representation since last meeting

The following changes in member representation have occurred since the last meeting:

Unicode: Roozbeh Pournader is a new alternate representative.
Apple: Yasuo Kida is a new alternate representative

2.4 New voting membership

No organization gained voting membership since the last meeting.

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 10, 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:

Members			Attendance
Organization	Class	Representative	February 1	February 2	February 3	February 4	February 5
Adobe Systems	Voting	Eric Muller, primary	x	x	x	x	x
Adobe Systems	Voting	Ken Lunde, alternate
Apple	Voting	Deborah Goldsmith, primary
		John Jenkins, alternate
		Peter Edberg, alternate		x	x	x	x
		Lee Collins, alternate
		Yasuo Kida, alternate			x
Google	Voting	Mark Davis, primary	x	x	x	x	x
		Markus Scherer, alternate		x	x	x
		Katsuhiko Momoi, alternate			x
IBM	Voting	V.S.Umamaheswaran, primary
IBM	Voting	Lisa Moore, alternate	x	x	x	x	x
Microsoft	Voting	Peter Constable, primary	x	x	x	x	x
Microsoft	Voting	Murray Sargent, alternate		x	x	x
Sun Microsystems	Voting	Ienup Sung, primary
Sun Microsystems	Voting	Naoto Sato, alternate
Sybase	Voting	Ken Whistler, primary	x	x	x	x	x
Sybase	Voting	Ian MacLeod, alternate
Unicode	Voting	Rick McGowan, primary	x	x	x	x	x
		Mike Ksar, alternate
		Richard Cook, alternate
		Michel Suignard, alternate	x	x	x	x	x
		Roozbeh Pournader, alternate	x	x	x	x	x
University of California at Berkeley	Voting	Deborah Anderson, primary	x	x	x	x	x
Yahoo!	Voting	Craig Cummings, primary	x	x	x	x	x
		Norbert Lindenberg, alternate
		Mike McKenna, alternate
Federal Communications Commission	Liaison	Donald Draper-Campbell
INCITS/PL22.4	Liaison	Ann Bennett
Library of Congress	Liaison	Randall K. Barry
Library of Congress	Liaison	Sally McCallum

3. Approval of the Agenda

An electronic version of the agenda (L2/10-017) 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 Eric Muller and seconded by Lisa Moore that the agenda be approved. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

4. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #218

The minutes of meeting L2 #218, November 2-6, 2009, document L2/09-338, 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.

5. Reports and liaisons

No reports.

6. Ballots

A summary of recent international ballots is available at http://www.unicode.org/L2/L-notice.htm.

6.1 Ballot reports

Doc#	Subject	Source	Approval Criteria
L2/09-289	ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 7, Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- AMENDMENT 7: Mandaic, Batak, Brahmi, and other characters Table of replies: SC2 N4086 Disposition of comments: SC2 N4120	SC2 N4077	2/3
L2/09-287	ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/PDAM 8, Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- AMENDMENT 8: Additional symbols, Bamum supplement, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D, and other characters Table of replies: SC2 N4087 Disposition of comments: SC2 N4122	SC2 N4078	2/3
L2/09-269	ISO/IEC CD 10646, Information technology -- Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) Table of replies: SC2 N4088 Disposition of comments: SC2 N4124	SC2 N4079	2/3

6.2 New ballots

Doc#	Subject	Source	Approval Criteria
L2/10-040	ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FDAM 7, Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- AMENDMENT 7: Mandaic, Batak, Brahmi, and other characters It was moved by Peter Constable and seconded by Lisa Moore to recommend the approval of ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FDAM 7 without comments. The motion passed 9:0:0:1 For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: Sun	SC2 N4121	2/3
L2/10-046	ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 8, Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- AMENDMENT 8: Additional symbols, Bamum supplement, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D, and other characters It was moved by Peter Constable and seconded by Rick McGowan to disapprove ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 8 with comments as documented in L2/10-066. Accomodations for comments T1, T2, T5, and T6a would change the vote to an approval. The motion passed 9:0:0:1 For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: Sun	SC2 N4123	2/3
L2/10-038	ISO/IEC FCD 10646, Information technology -- Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) It was moved by Peter Constable and seconded by Lisa Moore to approve ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 8 with comments as documented in L2/10-067. The motion passed 9:0:0:1 For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: Sun	SC2 N4125	2/3
L2/10-039	ISO/IEC 14651:2007/PDAM2, Information technology -- International string ordering and comparison -- Method for comparing character strings and description of the common template tailorable ordering It was moved by Roozbeh Pournader and seconded by Craig Cummings to approve ISO/IEC 14651:2007/PDAM2 with comments as documented in L2/10-069. The motion passed 9:0:0:1 For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: Sun	SC2 N4116	2/3
	National Standards Maintenance Recommendations for INCITS/ISO/IEC 10646 :2003 [2005] Information technology - Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) [First Edition] It was moved by Eric Muller and seconded by Rick McGowan to modify our recommendation regarding the maintenance of INCITS/ISO/IEC 10646:2003 [2005] to reaffirm this standard. The motion passed 9:0:0:1 For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: Sun
	International Standards Maintenance Recommendations for ISO 2047:1975 Information processing -- Graphical representations for the control characters of the 7- bit coded character set It was moved by Peter Constable and seconded by Craig Cummings to confirm ISO 2047:1975 The motion passed 9:0:0:1 For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: Sun

6.3 U.S. Contributions to ISO

Doc#	Subject
L2/10-068	It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Peter Edberg to send the following documents as US contributions to SC2/WG2: L2/10-068, Proposed additions to ISO/IEC 10646:2003 The motion passed 9:0:0:1 For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: Sun

Doc#

Subject

L2/10-068

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

L2/10-068, Proposed additions to ISO/IEC 10646:2003

The motion passed 9:0:0:1

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

7. International meetings

7.1 Future meetings

OWG-SORT #11, San José, CA, USA, April 19-23, 2010

WG2 #56, San José, CA, USA, April 19-23, 2010
WG2 #57, Republic of Korea, fall 2010 (tentative)
WG2 #58, Finland, spring 2011 (tentative)
WG2 #59, Mountain View, CA, USA, fall 2011 (tentative)

IRG #34, Nagaoka, Japan,, June 21-25, 2010
IRG #35, Macao SAR, November 8-12, 2010 (Pending approval)
IRG #36, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, late May/June 2011 (tentative)
IRG #37, IRG is seeking host, November 2010 (tentative)

Doc#	Subject
	Delegation to WG2 #56 It was moved by Rick McGowan and seconded by Ken Whistler that the delegation to this meeting be as recorded in document L2/10-075, and to authorize the delegation to submit documents on behalf of INCITS/L2 as needed during the course of the meetings. The motion passed 9:0:0:1 For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: Sun
	Delegation to OWG-SORT #11 It was moved by Rick McGowan and seconded by Ken Whistler that the delegation to this meeting be as recorded in document L2/10-076, and to authorize the delegation to submit documents on behalf of INCITS/L2 as needed during the course of the meetings. The motion passed 9:0:0:1 For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: Sun
	Delegation to IRG #34 It was moved by Rick McGowan and seconded by Ken Whistler that the delegation to this meeting be as recorded in document L2/10-077, and to authorize the delegation to submit documents on behalf of INCITS/L2 as needed during the course of the meetings. The motion passed 9:0:0:1 For: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo! Against: none Abstain: none No vote: Sun

8. Joint UTC/L2 meeting recommendations

It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Peter Edberg to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/10-016. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

9. Upcoming meetings

UTC 123/L2 220: May 10-14, 2010, San José, host Adobe
UTC 124/L2 221: August 9-13, 2010, Redmond, host Microsoft
UTC 125/L2 222: November 1-5, 2010, Cupertino, host Apple
UTC 126/L2 223: February 7-11, 2011, Sunnyvale, host Yahoo!

10. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

11. Adjournment

It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Peter Edberg to adjourn the meeting on February 5, 2010, at 11:17 am. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.