L2/11-019

Last update: May 13, 2011

 

 

Approved minutes of INCITS/L2 meeting #223

February 7-11, 2011, Sunnyvale

 

 

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on February 7, 2011, at 10:45 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

The term of office of our International Representative, Ms. Deborah Anderson, will expire in July 2011. A call for volunteers has been issued; see L2/11-066.

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

No changes in representation.

2.4 New voting membership

Oracle is no longer a member.

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 9, 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 7 February 8 February 9 February 10 February 11
Adobe Systems Voting Eric Muller, primary x x x x x
Ken Lunde, alternate          
Apple Voting Peter Edberg, primary x x x x x
John Jenkins, alternate          
Deborah Goldsmith, alternate          
Lee Collins, alternate          
Yasuo Kida, alternate          
Google Voting Mark Davis, primary x x x x x
Markus Scherer, alternate          
Katsuhiko Momoi, alternate          
IBM Voting V.S. Umamaheswaran, primary          
Lisa Moore, alternate x x x x x
Microsoft Voting Peter Constable, primary     x x x
Murray Sargent, alternate   x x x  
Laurentiu Iancu, alternate          
Sybase Voting Ken Whistler, primary x x x x x
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          
Sally McCallum          

 

3. Approval of the Agenda

An electronic version of the agenda (L2/11-018) 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. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

 

4. Joint UTC/L2 meeting

It was moved by Peter Edberg and seconded by Roozbeh Pournader to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/11-017. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

5. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #222

The minutes of meeting L2 #222, November 1-5, 2010, document L2/10-419, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Mark Davis to accept those minutes. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

 

6. Reports and liaisons

No reports.

 

7. Ballots

7.1 New ballots

Doc# Subject Source
 

ISO/IEC 10646/PDAM 1, Information Technology -- Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Amendment 1: Palmyrene, Old North Arabian, Sindhi, Mro, Bassa Vah, and other characters

It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Peter Constable to approve ISO/IEC 10646/PDAM 1 with comments, as documented in document L2/11-067.

The motion passed 9:0:0:0.

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

 SC2 N4169
 

ISO/IEC FCD 10646 (3rd Ed.), Information Technology -- Universal Coded Character Set (UCS)

It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Peter Edberg to disapprove ISO/IEC FCD 10646 (3rd Ed.), with comments, as documented in document L2/11-068. Accomodations for comments T1 through T4 would change the vote to an approval.

The motion passed 9:0:0:0.

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

 SC2 N4168
 

ISO/IEC FDIS 14651, Information technology -- International string ordering and comparison -- Method for comparing character strings and description of the common template tailorable ordering

It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Lisa Moore to recommend the approval of ISO/IEC 10646 FDIS (2nd Ed.).

The motion passed 9:0:0:0.

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

 SC2 N4173

7.2 U.S. Contributions to ISO

It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Eric Muller to send the following documents as US contributions to SC2/WG2:

The motion passed 9:0:0:0.

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

 

8. Endorsement of Mr. Ksar as US candidate for JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 convener

It was moved by Eric Muller and seconded by Rick McGowan to endorse Mr. Ksar as the US candidate for JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 Convener.  

The motion passed 9:0:0:0.

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

 

9. International meetings

9.1 Future meetings

Doc# Subject
 

Delegation to SC 35 GOM & WG 5 meeting.

It was moved by Eric Muller and seconded by Lisa Moore to delegate : Peter Constable (HOD), Murray Sargent, Michel Suignard to the SC 35 GOM and SC 35 / WG 5 meetings in Bellevue in February 2011.

The motion passed 9:0:0:0.

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

Hosting of IRG # 37 by the US

It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Rick McGowan to offer to host IRG meeting #37 at Google's facilities in Mountain View.

The motion passed 9:0:0:0.

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

 

10. Upcoming meetings

 

11. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

 

12. Adjournment

It was moved by Lisa Moore and seconded by Craig Cummings to adjourn the meeting on February 11, 2011, at 3:22 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.