L2/10-419

Last update: February 14, 2011

Approved minutes of INCITS/L2 meeting #222

November 1-5, 2010, Cupertino

1. Opening remarks and introductions

Eric Muller, Chair, convened the meeting on November 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.

2.3 Changes in representation since last meeting

Peter Edberg is now the primary representative for Apple, Deborah Goldsmith is an alternate representative.

2.4 New voting membership

No changes to the voting membership.

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:

3. Approval of the Agenda

An electronic version of the agenda (L2/10-418) 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 V.S. Umamaheswaran 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 Peter Edberg and seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran to endorse the motions and consensus of the joint UTC/L2 meeting as recorded in document L2/10-417. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.

5. Approval of meeting minutes from L2 #221

The minutes of meeting L2 #221, August 9 - 13, 2010, document L2/10-224, 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

7.2 U.S. Contributions to ISO

It was moved by V.S. Umamaheswaran and seconded by Ken Whistler to send the following documents as US contributions to SC2/WG2:

• L2/10-462, Comments on “Revised Proposal for Encoding Naxi Dongba Pictograph in the SMP” (WG2 N3935)
• L2/10-463, Comments on “Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP” (WG2 N3910)

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: Oracle.

8. US participation in JTC 1/SC 35/WG 5

The INCITS EB approved our request to serve as the US TAG to JTC 1/SC 35/WG 5. See L2/10-461.

9. International meetings

9.1 Future meetings

• SC2 #17, Helsinki, Finland, June 6-10, 2011

• OWG-SORT #13, Helsinki, Finland, June 6-10, 2011
• OWG-SORT #14, Mountain View, CA, USA, first quarter 2012 (tentative)
• OWG-SORT #15, Germany, fourth quarter 2012 (tentative)
• OWG-SORT #16, seeking host, second quarter 2012

• WG2 #58, Helsinki, Finland, June 6-10, 2011
• WG2 #59, Mountain View, CA, USA, first quarter 2012 (tentative)
• WG2 #60, Germany, fourth quarter 2012 (tentative)
• WG2 #61, seeking host, second quarter 2012

• IRG #35, Macao SAR, November 8-12, 2010
• IRG #36, Chong Qing, China, April 11-15, 2011
• IRG #37, USA, November 7-11, 2011 (tentative)

10. Upcoming meetings

• UTC 126/L2 223: February 7-11, 2011, Sunnyvale, host Yahoo!
• UTC 127/L2 224: May 9-13, 2011, San José, host Adobe
• UTC 128/L2 225: August 8-12, 2011, Redmond, host Microsoft
• UTC 129/L2 226: October 31 - November 4, 2011, Cupertino, host Apple

11. Action Items

Action items are recorded in document L-SD2.

12. Adjournment

It was moved by Ken Whistler and seconded by Peter Edberg to adjourn the meeting on November 5, 2010, at 4:17 pm. The motion was passed by unanimous consent.