Preliminary Agenda - UTC #75 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 172 joint meeting
Cupertino, CA - February 25-27, 1998
Hosted by Microsoft Corporation at 10000 Torre Avenue, Cupertino, CA

I. Administrative Issues
A. UTC membership roll call
1. Call for proxies
2. Roll call
B. Declaration of joint meeting
C. Approval of joint meeting agenda
D. Minutes and action items
1. Approval of minutes of Joint Meeting UTC #74 & L2 #717 [L2/9y-___]
2. Approval of revised minutes of discussion on international string ordering 
[L2/97-282R]
3. Review of action items  [L2/SD2]
E. Registration of new documents
F. Review of meeting calendar
Calendar posted at http://www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html
1. Survey proposed attendance at April meeting re quorum.
G. UTC administrative procedures
1. Requirements for a complete proposal (Aliprand)
2. The concept of a preliminary proposal (Freytag)
3. Use of the WG2 proposal form (Ksar & Freytag)
II. Technical Issues
A. Errata to Unicode 2.0 (Standing Item)
B. Revised Proposals
1. UTR #8: Version 2.1 (Moore)
2. UTR #9: BIDI reference algorithm (Bishop, Davis, Freytag)
3. Transcoding hint characters (Edberg)
C. New Proposals
1. UTR #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm (Whistler & Davis)
http://www.macchiato.com/mark/unicode/Algorithm.html
ftp://www.unicode.org/WorkingGroups/Collation/basekeys.txt (ftp access is 
passworded)
D. Formal Criteria for Disunification (Freytag)
III. Specific scripts
A. Whole Scripts
1. Revised Proposals
a) Western Music (McGowan)
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dmmc/Music/UnicodeMusic
2. New Proposals
a) Syriac script (Kiraz, Hasso & Nelson)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/gk105/syrcom/unicode/
b) Historic scripts (proposed for Plane 1)(Everson)
(1) Egyptian hieroglyphs[L2/97-266, 267]
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1636/n1636.htm
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1637/n1637.htm
(2) Meroitic [L2/97-268]
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1638/n1638.htm
(3) Old Persian Cuneiform [L2/97-269]
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1639/n1639.htm
(4) Ugaritic Cuneiform [L2/97-270]
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1640/n1640.htm
c) Fictional scripts (proposed for Plane 1)(Everson)
(1) Tengwar [L2/97-271]
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1641/n1641.htm
(2) Cirth [L2/97-272]
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1642/n1642.htm
(3) Klingon [L2/97- 273]
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1643/n1643.htm
d) Burmese – FYI (Collins)
http://www.unicode.org/pending/burmese/Burmese.html
e) Additional proposals – FYI (Everson)
“unicore” e-mail from Michael Everson dated Sun 15 Feb 1998, Subject: Yet more new 
documents]
B. Ideographic additions
C. Additional non-ideographic characters
1. Enclosing triangle (McGowan)
2. LATIN CAPITAL and SMALL LETTER H WITH CARON for 
Romani language of Finland [WG2 N1619] (Winkler)

D. Other script issues
1. Lao character sets (EBCDIC and ASCII) (Umamaheswaran) [L2/97-
262]
2. Javanese (McGowan)
3. Bangla (Aliprand)
Request to incorporate Bangla (Bangladesh coded character set) in 10646 [L2/97-287] & draft 
response: “unicore” e-mail from Michael Everson dated Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Subject: WG2 N1634 
(Bengali)]
IV. Current ballots
A. PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot for ISO 10646 - AMD 18 (symbols and 
others).  [98-002, 98-004]
1. PDAM registration
2. FPDAM ballot
B. PDAM registration and PDAM ballot for ISO 10646 - AMD 22 (keyboard 
symbols).  [98-003, 98-005]
1. PDAM registration
2. PDAM ballot
C. Reconfirmation ballot for ANSI/ISO 4873 - 8-bit codes, structure and rules for 
implementation  [98-013, 98-014]
V. W3C issues
A. New RFCs (Winkler)
1. RFC 2277: IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages (Best Current 
Practice.  Author: H. Alvestrand)
ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2277.txt
2.  RFC 2278: IANA Charset Registration Procedures (Best Current Practice.  
Authors: N. Freed & J. Postel)
ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2278.txt
3. RFC 2279: UTF-8, a transformation format od ISO 10646.  (Proposed 
Standard.  Author: F. Yergeau) 
ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2279.txt
VI. International Unicode Conferences (Standing Item)
VII. Interaction with SC2 
A. WG2, WG3 and SC2 Plenary meetings in Seattle, WA
1. Review of submissions to WG2
2. Review of submissions to SC2
B. UTC positions on other topics for next WG2 meeting

VIII. Other business
A. Cultural Adaptability Workshop (Winkler)
B. Internationalization in SQL Standard (Roberts)
Internationalization change proposal X3H2-98-021R1 (Author: Jim Melton) 
IX. Review of motions to L2, and action items
X. Closing of joint meeting

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