ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 N0062
Title: |
Recommendations of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Meeting, Granada Spain, 1923 April 1999 |
Source: |
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 |
Project: |
All ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 projects |
Project editor: |
All ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 project editors |
Status of document: |
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 approved recommendations |
Requested action: |
For information |
Date |
23 April 1999 |
Distribution: |
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 and liaisons |
JTC 1/SC 34 approves Dr. James Mason as Chairman of JTC 1/SC 34 for a three-year term of office ending with the 2002 JTC 1/SC 34 Meeting.
JTC 1/SC 34 approves the following WG Conveners and Terms of Reference:
Convener: Charles Goldfarb
Terms of Reference:
SC34/WG1 is responsible for information description languages, principally the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and auxiliary standards relating to SGML subsets, APIs, testing, and registration.
Convener: Yushi Komachi
Terms of Reference:
SC34/WG2 should perform its activities on the following scope and terms of reference:
To produce standards for languages and resources for the description and processing of compound and hypermedia documents, including:
Convener: Steve Pepper
Terms of Reference:
SC34/WG3 shall perform its activities within the following scope and terms of reference:
To produce standard architectures for information management and interchange based on ISO 8879 Standard Generalized Markup Language and related standards, including but not limited to:
SC 34 Number |
Topic |
Recipient |
N66 |
JTC 1/SC 34 Multimedia Issues |
JTC 1/SC24, SC29 |
N80 |
ISO-IEC/UN-ECE MG on EC |
JTC 1 |
Resolution 4: SC 34 Texts for Ballot
JTC 1/SC 34 approves the following texts for PDAM/FPDAM/CD/FCD registration and ballot:
ISO/IEC FCD 13240 |
Information Technology - Interchange Standard for Multimedia Interactive Documents (ISMID) |
ISO/IEC 9541-1/PDAM 3 |
Information Technology - Font Information Interchange - Part 1: Architecture - Amendment 3: Multilingual Extensions to font resource architecture |
ISO/IEC 9541-2/PDAM 1 |
Information Technology - Font Information Interchange - Part 2: Interchange Format - Amendment 1: Support for Font Technology Advances |
ISO/IEC TR9573-13 |
Proposed Technical Corrigendum to SGML entity set ISOAMSB (ISO TR9573-13:1991 |
JTC 1/SC 34 approves the Program of Work, Target Dates and Project Editor Assignments contained in SC 34 N 49, as revised at its Plenary.
JTC 1/SC 34 cancels the following project and requests that the SC 34 Secretariat remove it from the Program of Work:
1.34.15.07.02.15 |
ISO/IEC 9573-15 |
IT- SGML Support Facilities Techniques for Using SGML Part 15: Public Entity Sets for Non-Latin Alphabets |
SC34 approves the New Work Item Proposal for Product Data Markup Language, SC34 N81 and transmits it to JTC1 for processing. SC 34 expects this project to be developed jointly with TC184/SC4, with editors from each group.
JTC 1/SC 34 endorses the WG1, WG 2, and WG 3 Reports and Recommendations approved at the April 1999 Working Group meetings in Granada, Spain.
SC 34 approves the following tentative meeting schedule:
Monday (p.m.), 29 November3 December 1999 |
Philadelphia, PA |
SC 34 Plenary and Working Group Meetings |
June 2000 |
Europe |
SC 34 Plenary and Working Group Meetings |
SC34 requests that David Abrahamson and Roger Price draft a position paper on the issues of ownership of text, copyright, and access to texts and that Jerry Smith draft a position paper on the issues of collaboration with other organizations, particularly as it affects ownership of and access to texts. These documents should be distributed to the SC34 Chairman and Working Group Convenors over the course of the summer for the purpose of completing texts that can be submitted to the JTC1 Plenary.
SC 34 expresses its appreciation to the Graphic Communications Association for hosting the Second SC 34 Plenary Meeting in Granada, Spain.
JTC1/SC 34 thanks Dr. Jim Mason, the SC 34 Chairman, for the leadership and support he provided at the SC 34 meeting.
JTC1/SC 34 thanks its drafting committee, consisting of Yushi Komachi, Doris Bernardini and Marisa Topping for their effort in developing the SC 34 resolutions.