| TITLE: | Response to the Final AFII Liaison Statement concerning ISO/IEC 10036 |
| SOURCE: | Y. Komachi |
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| STATUS: | Document for SC34 meeting in Philadelphia |
| ACTION: | For information |
| DATE: | 1999-11-29 |
| DISTRIBUTION: | SC34 and Liaisons |
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| REPLY TO: | Dr. James David Mason (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Chaiman) SAIC Information Technology Services Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A. Telephone: +1 423 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 423 574-18964 Network: masonjd@ornl.gov http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/sc34/ ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/sc34/ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 American National Standards Institute 11 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Tel: +1 212 642 4976 Fax: +1 212 840 2298 Email: mpeacock@ansi.org |
The proposed topic should be discussed in the separate issues: glyph registration and ISO/IEC 10036.
Being independent of the volume increase in Unicode or ISO/IEC 10646, the concept of glyph and its registration are valid and meaningful. East Asian countries, in particular, have actually a strong requirement for registration of their glyphs.
A trade organization will not surely provide fund for glyph registration. The future registration of glyphs should be carried out as a full volunteer work supported by a semi-automatic procedure.
Instead of AFII or Unicode consortium, such a registration activity could be taken by a Japanese organization which has an interest in glyph registration.
ISO/IEC 10036 should not be discussed from only the glyph registration's point of view. The standard specifies the registration of objects:
The related standards such as ISO/IEC 9541, ISO/IEC 9070 and ISO/IEC 10180 refer to ISO/IEC 10036. The ISO/IEC 10036 is worth while being in the SC34 standards architecture.
Therefore ISO/IEC 10036 should be confirmed still in the forthcoming periodic review of the standard.