ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 N0023
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Title: |
Resolutions of the SC34 Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 9-13 November 1998 |
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Source: |
SC34 |
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Project: |
All SC34 projects |
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Project editor: |
All SC34 project editors |
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Status of document: |
SC34 approved resolutions |
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Requested action: |
For information |
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Date |
13 November 1998 |
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Distribution: |
SC34 "P" and "O" members and liaisons |
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References: |
SC34 N0002 |
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Supersedes: |
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SC 34 N0023
Unanimous
JTC 1/SC 34 confirms the following internal and external liaisons, as listed in SC 34 N004 Rev:
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Internal |
External |
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ISO/TC 46 |
International SGML Users' Group (A Liaison) |
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ISO/TC 184/SC 4 |
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JTC 1/SC 32 |
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Unanimous
JTC 1/SC 34 approves the Expected Benefits and Responsibilities contained in SC 34 N21 and requests that the SC 34 Secretariat forward this document to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for confirmation and to JTC 1 for approval. SC 34 appoints Mr. Jon Bosak as the SC 34 representative to the W3C. The SC 34 Secretariat is also instructed to invite the W3C to appoint a liaison representative to SC 34.
Unanimous
JTC 1/SC 34 notes the proposal to transfer the Registration Authority responsibilities for ISO/IEC 10036:1995 from AFII to the Unicode Consortium contained in SC34 N012. The proposal is acceptable to SC 34 only if the Unicode Consortium agrees to be the Registration Authority for all items covered by the standard as indicated in the liaison statement SC34 N0026. The SC 34 Secretariat is requested to forward the request to transfer the RA to JTC 1 for final approval upon confirmation that the revised proposal is acceptable to the Unicode Consortium.
Unanimous
SC 34 approves the following subdivision of Project 34.27.01:
| Project Number | Title | Project Editor |
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34.27.01.03 |
ISO/IEC 9541-1:1991, Amendment 3 - Information Technology - Font Information Interchange - Part 1: Architecture - Amendment 3: Multilingual extensions to font resource architecture |
Y. Komachi |
Rationale: Documents interchanged in the internet environment are often required to be a multilingual mixture, i.e., described using multiple languages within a paragraph, a page or a document. Those multilingual documents should be rendered and represented according to appropriate multilingual formatting requirements. The existing standard ISO/IEC 9541 and its current Amendment can support multilingual font treatments. However, the properties defined in the standards are still insufficient to fully support multilingual mixtures for multilingual formatting.
SC 34 instructs its Secretariat to forward this project subdivision to JTC 1 for endorsement.
Unanimous
SC 34 approves the following Working Group Structure:
Working Group 1 -- Information Description
The activities of Working Group 1 include:
Working Group 2 -- Information Presentation
The activities of Working Group 2 include:
Working Group 3 -- Information Association
The activities of Working Group 3 include:
The SC 34 Secretariat is instructed to issue a three-month Call for Volunteers for Conveners (and Secretariats, if necessary) and National Body Experts for the above Working Groups following this meeting.
Unanimous
SC 34 agrees that the preferred format for document distribution is ISO-HTML (ISO/IEC 15445) and the SC 34 Secretariat is requested to circulate all documents in this format, whenever possible.
1 Abstention (U.K.)
SC34 accepts N0024 as the final text of TC3 to ISO 8879:1986 and instructs the editor to transmit it to the Secretariat for processing. SC34 also instructs the editor to prepare a revised text of TC2, incorporating the changes to it from TC3 and transmit it to the Secretariat for publication in lieu of two separate TCs.
Unanimous
SC 34 approves the change to a Technical Report Type 1 for the Font Services project (JTC1.34.33) and instructs the SC 34 Secretariat to circulate the revised text of ISO/IEC DTR 15413 (SC 34 N20) for ballot.
Unanimous
JTC 1/SC 34 accepts the Report of the Fonts Group (SC 34 N 19) submitted by WG2.
Unanimous
JTC1/SC34 accepts the Report of WG3, SC34 N25.
Unanimous
SC34 accepts the following liaison statements:
| Document Number | To | Subject |
| SC34 N0026 | AFII | ISO/IEC 10036 Regsitration authority |
Unanimous
SC 34 approves the following tentative meeting schedule:
| Date | Location | Groups |
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19-23 April 1999 |
Granada, Spain |
SC 34 Plenary and Working Group Meetings |
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November/December 1999 |
Philadelphia, PA |
SC 34 Plenary and Working Group Meetings |
SC 34 expresses its appreciation to the Graphic Communications Association for hosting the first SC 34 Plenary Meeting in Bloomingdale, IL, USA.
SC34 expresses its appreciation to Compaq Computer Corporation for the hosting of the Wednesday evening social event.
JTC1/SC34 thanks Dr. James Mason, the Acting SC34 Chairman, for the leadership and support he provided at the SC34 meeting.
JTC1/SC34 thanks its drafting committee, consisting of Dr. Yushi Komachi, Dr. Doris Bernardini, Mr. Geoff Williams, and Ms. Marisa Topping for their diligent effort in developing the SC34 resolutions.