L2/11-264

Last update: November 4, 2011

Approved minutes of INCITS/L2 meeting #225

August 1-5, 2011, Redmond

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on August 1, 2011, 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

No change in officers.

The term of the current L2 chair expires in January 2012. The INCITS secretariat issued a Call for Volunteers - Chairman - INCITS/L2, which was sent to all the L2 members.

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

Yahoo! is now represented by John O’Conner (primary). There are no alternate representatives.

Rearden Commerce is now represented by Tex Texin (primary) and Craig Cummings (alternate).

2.4 New voting membership

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

• Rearden Commerce

2.5 New advisory members

No new advisory members.

2.6 Membership for this meeting

Based on the above information, the total voting membership is 9 (Monday) and 10 (rest of the week). 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 (L2/11-263) 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 Mark Davis and seconded by Lisa Moore that the agenda be approved. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

4. Joint UTC/L2 meeting

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 L2/11-262. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

5. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #224

The minutes of meeting L2 #224, May 9-13, 2011, document L2/11-119, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by V.S. Umamaheswaran and seconded by Ken Whistler to accept those minutes. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

6. Reports and liaisons

No reports.

7. Ballots

7.1 New ballots

No action taken on "ISO/IEC 10646/PDAM 1.2, Information Technology -- Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Amendment 1: Linear A, Palmyrene, Manichean, Khojki, Khudawadi, Bassa Vah, Duployan, and other characters", as more work is needed. Will do a letter ballot.

7.2 U.S. Contributions to ISO

No contributions.

8. Call for WG2 experts

It was moved by Eric Muller and seconded by Ken Whistler to nominate Ken Whistler, Mark Davis, Peter Constable, Deborah Anderson, Lisa Moore, as well as additional experts they may nominate to participate in discussions associated with ballot dispositions and related matters (see SC2 N4202).

The motion passed 9:0:0:1.

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

9. L2 Document Repository

The chair will work with the INCITS secretariat to transition the L2 document repository to the ICMS system.

10. International meetings

10.1 Future meetings

• SC2 #18, Chiang Mai, Thailand (alternative: Berlin, Germany), October 26, 2012

• OWG-SORT #14, Mountain View, CA, USA, February 13-17, 2012
• OWG-SORT #15, Chiang Mai, Thailand (alternative: Berlin, Germany), October 22-26, 2012
• OWG-SORT #16, Berlin, Germany, second quarter 2013

• WG2 #59, Mountain View, CA, USA, February 13-17, 2012
• WG2 #60, Chiang Mai, Thailand (alternative: Berlin, Germany), October 22-26, 2012
• WG2 #61, Berlin, Germany, second quarter 2013

• IRG #37, Mountain View, CA, USA, November 7-11, 2011
• IRG #38, Gyeongju, Korea, June 18-22, 2012
• IRG #39, Hong Kong, November 12-16, 2012

• SC 35, Warsaw, Poland, August 29-September 2, 2011
• SC 35, Kyoto, Japan, February 20-24, 2012
• SC 35, Montréal, Canada, August 27-31, 2012 (tentative)
• SC 35, Latin America or Korea, February 25-March 1, 2013 (tentative)
• SC 35, Korea or Latin America, August 26-30, 2013 (tentative)

11. Upcoming meetings

• UTC 129/L2 226: October 31-November 4, 2011, Cupertino, host Apple
• UTC 130/L2 227: February 6-10, 2012, Bay Area
• UTC 131/L2 228: May 7-11, 2012, San José, host Adobe
• UTC 132/L2 229: July 30 - August 3, Redmond, host Microsoft

12. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

13. Adjournment

It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Lisa Moore to adjourn the meeting on August 5, 2011, at 3:14 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.