At this meeting, the following National Bodies and Liaison Organizations were represented: Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, UK, USA and Vietnam, Iceland (O-member), Latvia, (observer), SC 18/WG 9, SC 21, SC22, SC 31, ISO/TC 46/SC 2, ISO/TC 46/SC 4, CEN/TC 304 and GSE. Vietnam was absent when the resolutions were adopted.

JTC 1 Matters

RESOLUTION M07-01: Endorsement of Chairman

SC 2 endorses Professor Kohji Shibano as the chairman of SC 2 for a three-year term. The Secretariat is instructed to forward its nomination to the JTC 1 plenary meeting to be held in Ottawa, Canada, 1997-09 for appointment.

In response to SC 2 N 2909 (JTC 1 N 4789), SC 2 offers to host the Cultural Adaptability Workshop and SC 2 recommends this offering to JTC 1. SC 2 appoints the following experts to a planning committee to organize and execute the workshop.

Mr. Kohji Shibano (SC 2 Chair) as Leader
Ms. Toshiko Kimura (SC 2 Secretariat)
Mr. Mike Ksar (SC 2/WG 2 Convener, USA)
Mr. Arnold Winkler (SC 22/WG 20 Convener, USA)
Mr. Keld Simonsen (SC 2 and SC 22/WG 20 Project Editor, Denmark)
Mr. Erkki Kohlehmainen (Finland)

SC 2 nominates JISC as the registration authority of ISO 2375 and ISO 7350. The Secretariat is instructed to forward this nomination to the JTC 1 Secretariat for letter ballot and for subsequent appointment by ISO and IEC Council.

SC 2 recommends to JTC 1 for the five year periodical review as follows:

ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 and Cor. 1 Revision (See Resolution 7-06)
ISO/IEC 2033: 1988 (MICR and OCR) Revision
ISO/IEC 6936: 1988 (Conversion between 646 and 6937-2) Confirmation

RESOLUTION M07.05: Progression of 10646-1: DAM 5 (Korean Hangul), 6 (Tibetan) and 7 (Additional 33 Characters)

With reference to N 2927, SC 2 approves the disposition of comments proposed by WG 2. SC 2 further approves that the revised texts prepared by the project editor are forwarded to the ITTF for publication.

With reference to N 2927, SC 2 approves the recommendation from WG 2 to revise 10646-1: 1993 instead of reconfirmation.

With reference to N 2927, SC 2 approves the disposition of comments proposed by WG 2. SC 2 further approves that the revised texts on Ethiopic, Canadian Syllabics, and Cherokee scripts prepared by the project editor are forwarded to the ITTF for 2-month Final DAM ballots.

With reference to N 2927, SC 2 approves the disposition of comments proposed by WG 2 (SC 2 N 2901) and instructs its Secretariat to forward the revised text of PDTR (SC 2 N 2902) on Character Glyph Model to the JTC 1 Secretariat for a 3-month DTR letter ballot.

SC 2 approves the recommendation from WG 2 and instructs its Secretariat to forward the Draft Technical Corrigendum on Collection Identifiers prepared by the project editor to SC 2 for a 3-month letter ballot.

With Reference to SC 2 N 2927, SC 2 approves the recommendation from WG 2 and instructs its Secretariat to forward the final WD on Braille patterns prepared by the project editor for a 4-month combined FPDAM registration and consideration ballot.

With reference to SC 2 N 2927, SC 2 approves the recommendation from WG 2 and instructs its Secretariat to forward the final WD on Yi Script and Yi radicals prepared by the project editor for a 3-month combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot.

With reference to SC 2 N 2927, SC 2 approves the following subdivisions and instructs its Secretariat to forward these subdivision proposals to JTC 1 for endorsement indicating the national bodies expressed their active participation. Further SC 2 Secretariat is instructed to conduct a combined PDAM registration and FPDAM consideration ballot upon receipt of the texts.

a) Runic
Active participating P-members: 7 (Canada, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, UK, USA)

b) Ogham Script
Active participating P-members: 6 (Canada, Ireland, Norway, Romania, UK, USA)

c) Sinhala Script
Active participating P-members: 5 (Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, UK, USA)

d) Symbols and Other collections
Active participating P-members: 8 (Canada, Egypt, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Romania, UK, USA)

With reference to SC 2 N 2927, SC 2 approves the following subdivision and instructs its Secretariat to forward this subdivision proposal to JTC 1 endorsement indicating the national bodies expressed their active participation. Further SC 2 Secretariat is instructed to conduct a combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot upon receipt of the text.

Active participating P-members: 7 (Canada, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Romania, UK, USA)

RESOLUTION M07.14 (CD 1073-2.3, OCR-B)

With reference to SC 2 N 2933, SC 2 approves the recommendation from WG 3 that this project on OCR-B revision is changed to Type 2 Technical Report.

With reference to SC 2 N 2933, SC 2 approves the recommendation from WG 3 and resolves to reconfirm as is ISO/IEC 6429.

With reference to SC 2 N 2933, SC 2 approves the disposition of comments recommended by WG 3 and instructs its Secretariat to forward the final texts of CDs on Latin/Hebrew and Latin alphabet No. 8, prepared by the project editors to the ITTF for 4-month DIS letter ballots.

With reference to SC 2 N 2933, SC 2 approves the suspension of the project on Latin/Thai and instructs WG 3 to report this issue at the next SC 2 plenary meeting (See RESOLUTION M 07.27).

SC 2 instructs its Secretariat to conduct a combined CD registration and FCD consideration ballot upon receipt of the text on Latin/Greek from the project editor.

With reference to SC 2 N 2933, SC 2 approves the suspension of discussion on this item and instructs WG 3 to report on this subject at the next SC 2 plenary meeting. SC 2 invites National Bodies and Liaison Organizations to make a contribution.

SC 2 invites the National Body of Romania to prepare a subdivision proposal for a new part of 8859 and to forward it to the SC 2 Secretariat for an SC 2 letter ballot.

SC 2 instructs its Secretariat to conduct a combined letter ballot for a project subdivision, CD registration, and FCD consideration based on Document SC 2 N 2910 on Latin zero.

Preliminary active participation: 6 (Canada, Denmark, Finland, France (proxy by Canada), Ireland, Israel)

SC 2 resolves to suspend this project on 7350 Revision (see Resolution M07.28).

SC 2 accepts the scope definition of the Revision in Document SC 2 N 2937 for ISO/IEC 6937 with agreed upon editorial changes. SC 2 instructs its Secretariat to forward SC 2 N 2937 as a liaison statement to ITU-T/SG 8.

SC 2 delegates the authority for the dispositions of comments to the project editors and instructs to prepare the final texts and forward them to the Secretariat for publication.

SC 2 accepts the recommendation from WG 3 that this project is changed from Revision to Technical Corrigendum.

SC 2 invites the National Body of Vietnam to prepare a new work item proposal for an 8 bit standard on Vietnamese and submit it to SC 2 for consideration.

RESOLUTION M07.27 (Combining character in 8-bit standards)

SC2 instructs WG3 to formulate a recommendation on combining characters in 8 bit standards and to report the result by the next SC2 plenary meeting.

With reference to WG 2 Resolution M33.31 in document N 2927 and WG 3 Resolution M12.11 in document N 2933, SC 2 instructs WG 2, in corporation with WG 3, to prepare a proposal to cover the requirements for Collection Identifiers for 10646 subsets and report to the next SC 2 Plenary. SC 2 further invites National Bodies and Liaison Organizations to communicate their needs to WG 2. SC 2 invites US and Canadian National Bodies to assist WG 2 in this effort.

SC 2 approves Document SC 2 N 2920 on electronic document distribution and instructs its Secretariat to implement server based documentation. SC 2 appoints Mr. K. Simonsen (Denmark) as the SC 2 Web maintainer.

RESOLUTION M07.30 (Renumbering)

SC 2 approves the following re-numbering.

Project 1.02.20.12 Blank (Unassigned)

Project 1.02.20.14 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets - Part 14 Latin alphabet No. 8 (Celtic)

SC 2 approves the target dates in SC 2 N 2936 on SC 2 Programme of Work.

RESOLUTION M07.32 (SC31 liaison)

SC2 invites national bodies to study JTC1/SC31 (Automatic Identification and Data Capture) liaison report in document N 2928 and to make contributions to assist SC2 to formulate a response to SC31. SC2 further invites National Bodies to nominate a liaison representative to SC31.

SC2 instructs its secretariat to forward 10646/DAM9 and disposition of comments including response to the Liaison Statement from JTC1/SC22 (Programming Languages) comments on DAM9 to SC22.

In response to the request from Internet Society (SC 2 N 2859), SC 2 recommends to JTC 1 to seek the approval of ISO Council to make SC 2 standards and working drafts electronically available.

SC 2 approves the application from the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technologies (UNU/IIST) for Category C Liaison with SC 2/WG 2. SC 2 instructs its Secretariat to forward SC 2 N 2858 to JTC 1 for approval.

RESOLUTION M07.36 (WG 2 Convener)

SC 2 appoints Mr. Mike Ksar as the Convener of Working Group 2 for an additional three year term.

SC 2 appoints Mr. Melagrakis as the Convener of Working Group 3 for a three year term.

SC 2 approves the extension of the term of office of Mr. Zhang Zhoucai till December 1997.

SC 2 re-appoints its the project editors as follows:

Project Editor	Projects
Mr. B. Surayuth	02.20.11 (Latin/Thai)
Mr. M. Everson	02.20.14 (Celtic)
Mr. S. Fuchs	02.20.08 (Latin/Hebrew)
Mr. A. Griffee	02.15285 (Character Glyph TR)
Mr. E. Hart	02.15285 (Character Glyph TR)
Mr. K. I. Larsson	02.26 (OCR-B), 02.20.04(Latin 4), 02.10 (Latin 10)
Mr. E. Melagrakis	02.20.07 (Latin/Greek)
Mr. I. Metra	02.20.13 (Latin 7)
Mr. J. B. Paterson	02.02 (2022), 02.20.01 (Latin 1), 02.18.00 (10646-1) and all its subprojects
Mr. K. Sherif	02.20.06 (Latin/Arabic), 02.19 (9036)
Mr. K. Simonsen	02.14.01/02 (6937)
Mr. J. van Wingen	02.16 (7350), 02.20.02 (Latin 2), 02.20.03 (Latin 3), 02.20.05 (Latin/Cyrillic), 02.20.11 (Latin/Thai), 02.20.13 (Latin 7), 02.22 (10367)

 

WG 3 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Willy Bohn for his long efforts as the 6429 project editor.

SC 2 appoints its Liaison representatives as follows:

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 18	Mr. A. Griffee
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 18/WG 9	Mr. A. LaBonté
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21	Mr. K. Shibano
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22	Mr. J. van Wingen
ISO/TC 46/SC 2	Mr. J. Clews
GSE	Mr. A. LaBonté
ISOC	Mr. K. Simonsen
ITU-T	Mr. G. B. Tzortzinis, Mr. Melagrakis

 

RESOLUTION M07.43 Meeting Schedule

SC 2 approves the future meeting schedule as follows:

1998-03-24/25 Seattle, USA
1999-01 Japan (Tentative)
2000-03 Egypt (Tentative)
2001-03
2002-03

RESOLUTION M07.44 Appreciation to Host

SC 2 expresses its sincere appreciation to the Greek National Body (ELOT) for hosting the 7th Plenary meeting of SC 2 in beautiful Iraklion-Crete, Greece and for the excellent reception on July 4, 1997. Additionally, SC 2 expresses its appreciation to the following individuals for their assistance in this regard:

Mr. E. Melagrakis
Mrs. M Verykiou
Mr. G. Chaitidis
Mr. N. Melagrakis
Mrs. K. Velli
Mrs. E. Alexandri

SC2 greatly appreciates the excursion to Knossos, Phaistos and Matala and wishes to offer its sincerest appreciation to these individuals who have organized the entertainment.