UTC #177 Logistics
and General Information
November 1 – 3, 2023

Hybrid meeting, hosted by
Apple, Cupertino, CA
and virtually via Webex

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

Wednesday, November 1 10:30 am – 5:30 pm
Thursday, November 2 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Friday, November 3 9:30 am – 5:30 pm

2. Meeting logistics:

To provide the best hybrid meeting experience, all participants should join the virtual meeting in Webex, including those attending in person. Prior to the meeting, please install the Webex app, which you can download for free here.

2.1 On-site attendance

The meeting will be held in the Singapore conference room of Infinite Loop 1, located at Apple’s Infinite Loop campus (1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014). Visitors should enter the lobby from the adjacent building, Infinite Loop 2.

Transportation & parking: There is surface parking surrounding the campus, which is located on De Anza Blvd. VTA bus line 55 stops at De Anza & Mariani and connects to the Sunnyvale Transit Center for Caltrain.

Webex meeting: When joining the Webex meeting in person, make sure that the “Use computer audio” option is not selected. See the Online attendance section below for additional details.

Hotels: see below for some hotel options.

2.2 Online attendance

Use the “Join Webex 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 you Webex profile to show your full name and a well-formed email address. Then click the “Join as a guest” button, after which you will enter a Webex lobby to be admitted by a meeting host.

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

Join Webex Meeting

Or join by entering the following Meeting number and Meeting password in Webex:
Meeting number (access code): 2507 043 5773
Meeting password: WeLoveUnicode

3. Meeting timeline (tentative):

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Admin:
A.1 Quorum
A.2 Agenda
A.4 Review of UTC action items 		10:30 am
H.1 Release Management Group report morning
C.1 Editorial Committee report morning
Liaisons:
B.5 TC 37/SC 2
B.1 JTC 1/SC 2 		morning
Lunch 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
G. Emoji 1:30 pm
Liaisons:
B.12 ECMA TC 39
B.3.2 ICU4X-TC 		afternoon
E. CJK and Unihan afternoon
Break around 3:15 pm
E. CJK and Unihan (continued) afternoon
Liaisons:
B.2 IRG 		late afternoon

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Admin:
A.1 Quorum
A.3 Review of UTC #176 minutes 		9:30 am
D. Scripts
D.1 Script Ad-Hoc Committee Report
D.2 PRI #479 Proposed Update UTR #53
D.3 PRI #482 Proposed Draft UTR #56
D.6 Public review feedback routed to SAH 		morning
Break around 11:00 am
D. Scripts (continued)
D.7 Trip report
D.1 Script Ad-Hoc Committee Report (continued) 		morning
Lunch 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
D. Scripts (continued)
D.1 Script Ad-Hoc Committee Report (continued)
D.8 Khitan Small Script candidate for Unicode 16.0
D.4 Script exemplars
D.5.1 Do Not Emit data
D.5.2 Orthographic syllable structures 		afternoon
Break mid-afternoon
Liaisons:
B.7 SEI
B.8 INFITT
B.9 LSA 		afternoon

Friday, November 3, 2023

Admin:
A.1 Quorum 		9:30 am
F.2 Text Terminal Working Group report 9:40 am
F.1 Properties and Algorithms Group report and recommendations morning
Break around 11:00 am
F.1 PAG report and recommendations (continued) morning
Lunch 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Admin: A.5 Calendar review afternoon
F.1 PAG report and recommendations (continued) afternoon
Liaisons:
B.3 ICU
B.4 CLDR
B.6 IETF/ICANN
B.10 JTC 1/SC 22 B.11 TC 46 		afternoon
I.1 Other feedback afternoon
Admin:
A.6 Closing dates for PRIs
A.7 L2 representatives 		afternoon
Break mid-afternoon
INCITS/L2 meeting late afternoon

For agenda details, see UTC #177 Agenda.

4. Hotels

Three hotels are in walking distance:

5. Contact information: