UTC #175 Logistics
and General Information
April 25 – 27, 2023

Hybrid meeting, hosted by
Adobe, San Jose, CA
and virtually via Microsoft Teams

1. Meeting Schedule, Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7:00):

Tuesday, April 25 10:30 am – 5:30 pm
Wednesday, April 26 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Thursday, April 27 9:30 am – 5:30 pm

2. Meeting logistics:

To provide the best hybrid meeting experience, all participants should join the virtual meeting in Microsoft Teams, including those attending in person.

2.1 On-site attendance

Venue: The meeting will be held in the Aberdeen conference room, on the first floor of Adobe Almaden Tower, located at 151 Almaden Blvd, San Jose, CA 95113.

Lunch will be provided in the form of promo codes for up to $10 per meal to be used at ordering kiosks in the cafes. Attendees will be responsible for anything over $10. Access to all cafes for lunch, barista coffee, etc. will require an Adobe employee escort which will be arranged as needed. Please be advised that cash is not accepted, and that the only acceptable forms of payment are credit cards.

Registration: Registration will be required for visitors to Adobe's facilities and to gain access to Adobe's guest Wi-Fi network. On-site participants should RSVP to the UTC chair at least one week in advance, providing name, affiliation and email address. Daily name badges and guest Wi-Fi network credentials will then prepared and ready for you when you arrive. See contact details below.

Transportation & parking:

  • Taxis: Taxis from the San Jose International Airport (SJC) to Adobe's headquarters are about $20 one way. Some of the nearby hotels also operate their own airport shuttles.
  • Caltrain: The San Jose Diridon station is located 0.6 miles from Adobe’s headquarters.
  • Parking: Use either the East Tower entrance on Almaden Boulevard or the West Tower entrance on Park Avenue. Be sure to inform the parking attendant that you are attending the UTC meeting and a guest of Josh Hadley; there will be no charge. For those requiring EV charging, there is a single ChargePoint L2 EV charging station on the first floor of the East Tower that is reserved for visitor use. There is no charge for its use, but you will need a ChargePoint account, and will be limited to four hours of charging per session.

Arrival: Go to the Almaden Tower lobby at 151 Almaden Boulevard, which is to the right of the East Tower parking entrance. As long as you have registered in advance, there should be a badge waiting for you each day.

COVID-19 protocol: Anyone entering Adobe's facilities is asked to complete a self-assessment of their health. For the safety of all attendees, if you feel unwell, please remain home, even if you think you only have a cold or allergies.

Teams meeting: When joining the Teams meeting in the conference room, select “Don't use audio”. See below for instructions on how to join the meeting online.

2.2 Online attendance

Use the “Join online meeting” link below for all meeting days.

People planning to join the meeting should notify the chair or hosts in advance (see contact information below). You must set your Teams profile to show your full name. Then click the “Join now” button, after which you will enter a Teams meeting lobby to be admitted by a meeting host.

Note: You will not be admitted if the name appearing in the Teams meeting lobby isn’t recognized!

Join Teams Meeting

Or join by entering a meeting ID in Teams:
Meeting ID: 270 831 632 245
Passcode: GaKEyb

Or call in (audio only):
+1 669-699-1146 (San Jose)
Passcode: 297 100 691#
Find a local number

3. Meeting timeline (tentative):

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Admin:
A.1 Quorum
Opening of L2 Meeting
A.2 Agenda
A.4 Review of UTC action items 		10:30 am
C. Editorial Committee
C.1 Editorial Committee Report and Recommendations
C.2 PRI #464 Proposed Update UAX #41, Common References for Unicode Standard Annexes 		morning
H. Unicode Release Management
H.1 Release Management Group Report
H.2 Unicode 15.1 		morning
Liaisons:
B.1 JTC 1/SC 2
B.5 TC 37/SC 2
B.11 TC 46 		morning
Lunch 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
E. CJK and Unihan
E.1 CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations
E.2 PRI #467 Proposed Update UAX #38, Unicode Han Database
E.3 PRI #468 Proposed Update UAX #45, U-source Ideographs 		afternoon
Break around 3:15 pm
E. CJK and Unihan (continued)
E.1, E.2, E.2 (continued)
E.4 GB 18030-2022 		afternoon
Liaisons:
B.2 IRG 		afternoon
E.4.2 Proposal to provisionally assign or accept 603 urgently-needed ideographs 5:00 pm

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Admin:
A.1 Quorum
A.3 Review of UTC #174 minutes
A.5 Calendar review 		9:30 am
Liaisons:
B.7 SEI
B.8 INFITT
B.9 LSA 		morning
D. Scripts
D.2 Seal script
D.3 Egyptian Hieroglyphs
D.7 Encoding proposal templates 		morning
Break around 10:45 am
F.6 Proper complex script support in text terminals 11:00 am
Lunch 11:45 am to 12:45 pm
D. Scripts (continued)
D.1 Recommendations to UTC #175 		afternoon
Break around 3:15 pm
Liaisons:
B.4.1 CLDR Keyboard Subcommittee		 3:30 pm
D. Scripts (continued)
D.4 Tulu / Tulu-Tigalari
D.6 Forint sign
D.8 Do Not Emit data
D.9 ScriptExtensions 		afternoon
D.5 Text representation and shaping manual of the Mongolian script 5:00 pm

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Admin:
A.1 Quorum 		9:30 am
G. Emoji
G.1 Emoji Submcommittee Report
G.2 Priorities for Unicode 16.0 & Beyond
G.3 PRI #471 Proposed Update UTS #51 		morning
Liaisons:
B.4 CLDR
B.3 ICU
B.6 IETF/ICANN
B.10 JTC 1/SC 22 		morning
Break around 10:45 am
F. Properties and Algorithms
F.1 PAG feedback and recommendations
F.2 PRI ##460/461/etc. Proposed Updates to UAXes 		morning
Lunch 11:45 am to 12:45 pm
F. Properties and Algorithms (continued)
F.1 PAG feedback and recommendations (continued)
F.3 PRI #463 Proposed Update UTS #39
F.4 PRI #474 Draft UTS #55
F.5 PRI #472 Line breaking at orthographic syllable boundaries 		afternoon
Break around 3:15 pm
I.1 Other feedback afternoon
H.2.2 Unicode 15.1 Beta afternoon
Admin:
A.6 Closing dates for PRIs
A.7 L2 representatives 		around 3:45 pm
INCITS/L2 meeting 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

For agenda details, see UTC #175 Agenda.

4. Hotels

These are hotels within one mile:

5. Contact information: