L2/11-356

Last update: November 30, 2011

Approved minutes of INCITS/L2 meeting #226

October 31 - November 4, 2011, Cupertino

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on October 31, 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

No change in officers.

The term of the current L2 chair expires in January 2012. Craig Cummings has been appointed by the INCITS Executive Board as the new chair, for a period of three years starting in January 2012.

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 Linus Tanaka (primary). There are no alternate representatives.

Adobe Systems has an additional alternate representative: John O'Conner (who is no longer representing Yahoo!).

Google has an additional alternate representative: Roozbeh Pournader (who is no longer representing Unicode Inc.).

2.4 New voting membership

No new voting members.

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 10. 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 (L2/11-355) 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 Craig Cummings that the agenda be approved. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

4. Joint UTC/L2 meeting

It was moved by Peter Constable and seconded by Lisa Moore to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/11-354. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

5. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #225

The minutes of meeting L2 #225, August 1-5, 2011, Redmond, document L2/11-264, were reviewed. No issues were raised. It was moved by Ken Whistler 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

7.2 U.S. Contributions to ISO

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

• L2/11-330, Requests for future additions to 10646

The motion passed 10:0:0:0.

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

8. International meetings

8.1 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, 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)

9. Upcoming meetings

• 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, 2012, Redmond, host Microsoft
• UTC 133/L2 230: November 5-9, 2012, Cupertino, host Apple (tentative)

10. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

11. Adjournment

It was moved by Peter Constable and seconded by Lisa Moore to adjourn the meeting on November 4, 2011, at 4:30 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.