ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0294

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34

Information Technology --

Document Description and Processing Languages

Title:	Secretariats Report
Source:	Sara Hafele
Project:
Project editors:
Status:
Action:	For information and review.
Date:	03 March 2002
Summary:
Distribution:	SC34 and Liaisons
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Supercedes:
Reply to:	Dr. James David Mason (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Chairman) Y-12 National Security Complex Information Technology Services Bldg. 9113 M.S. 8208 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A. Telephone: +1 865 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 865 574-1896 E-mailk: mailto:mxm@y12.doe.gov http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/sc34oldhome.htm Ms. Sara Hafele, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat American National Standards Institute 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Tel: +1 212 642-4937 Fax: +1 212 840-2298 E-mail: shafele@ansi.org

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34- Document Description and Processing Languages – Secretariats Report

Chairman – Dr. James D. Mason

Secretariat – Ms. Sara Hafele

1) SC 34 Membership

‘P’ Member Bodies (13)

Brazil	Japan
Canada	Korea, Republic of
China	The Netherlands
Denmark	Norway
France	USA
Ireland	United Kingdom
Italy

‘O’ Member Bodies (4)

Australia	Germany
Czech Republic	Sweden

2) Liaisons

Liaison	Title	Category
ISO/TC 46	Information and Documentation	Internal
ISO/TC 184 SC 4	Industrial Data and Global Manufacturing Languages	Internal
JTC 1 SC 32	Data Management and Interchange	Internal
SGML UG	Standard Generalized Markup Language Users Group	A
W3C	World Wide Web Consortia	C
OASIS	Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards	A

3) Working Groups

WG 1 – Markup Languages

Convenor – Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb

SC 34/WG 1 is responsible for information description languages, principally the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and auxiliary standards relating to SGML subsets, APIs, testing and registration.

1. SGML (ISO 8879)

2. SDIF (ISO 9069)

3. Registration Procedures for SGML Public Identifiers (ISO 9070)

4. Technical Reports 9573

5. Conformance Testing for SGML Systems (DIS 13673)

6. APIs for document processing

WG 2 – Information Presentation

Convenor – Dr. Yushi Komachi

SC 32/WG 2 is responsible for producing standards for languages and resources for the description and processing of compounds and hypermedia documents, including:

1. Document processing architecture and formatting for logical documents

2. Multilingual font information interchange and related services

3. Final-form document architecture and page information interchange

4. APIs for the above document processing

WG 3 – Information Association

Convenor – Mr. Steve Pepper

SC 34/WG 3 is responsible for producing standard architectures for information management and interchange based on ISO 8879, Standard Generalized Markup Language and related standards, including, but not limited to:

1. Information linking and addressing

2. Time-based information management

3. Representation of knowledge structures, indexes, etc.

4. Management of behavioral components in interactive documents

4) SC 34 DOCUMENT REGISTER

(documents posted since the last Secretariats Report)

N 275	Proposed CD Ballot on 19757-0 - DSDL Part 0 – Overview	WG 1	2001-12-18
N 276	Proposed CD text of Part 2 of DSDL: Grammar-based Schema Languages	WG 1	2001-12-18
N 277	Differences between XTM 1.0 and the HyTime-based meta-data	M. Biezunski, S. Newcomb	2001-12-19
N 278	Topic maps, roadmap for further work	L.M. Garshol	2001-12-19
N 279	Report of SC34/WG2	Y. Komachi	2001-12-19
N 280	Report of ISO/IEC 10036 Registration	GLOCOM	2001-12-19
N 281	Disposition of comments on SC34 N0216: PDAM1 to ISO/IEC 10179:1996, Extensions to DSSSL	SC34/WG2	2001-12-19
N 282	WG2 Program of work revised in WG2 meeting, Dec. 2001	SC34/WG2	2001-12-19
N 283	WG2 Comments on Secretariats Report (SC34 N0273)	SC 34/WG2	2001-12-19
N 284	Recommendations of Dec. 2001 Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG2 in Orlando	SC 34/WG 2	2001-12-19
N 285	Recommendations of the SC34/WG1 Meeting, Orlando, 9–12 December 2001	SC34/WG1	2001-12-19
N 286	Resolutions of the SC34 Meeting, Orlando, 8–13 December 2001	SC 34	2001-12-19
N 287	Reserved for Recommendations of WG3, Orlando (not available)
N 288	Report of the Project for Revising ISO/IEC TR 9573-11	Y. Komachi	2002-1-23
N 289	December 2001 TMB Communique	ISO CS	2002-1-28
N 290	Summary of Voting on SC 34 N 236 - Draft Technical Corrigendum Ballot on ISO/IEC 15445:2000 – HyperText Markup Language (HTML)	SC 34 Secretariat	2002-1-28
N 291	National Body Comments on JCT 1 N 6599 - SC 34 Request for JTC 1 Approval of Category A Liaison Between the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and JTC 1/SC 34	JTC 1 Secretariat	2002-1-28
N 292	DISARM (Document Information Set Articulated Reference Model) Proposal	R. Jelliffe	2002-2-28
N 293	Meeting Announcement / Draft Agenda for the JTC 1/SC 34 Meeting, 18-22 May 2002, Barcelona, Spain	SC 34 Secretariat	2002-03-06
N 294	SC 34 Secretariats Report	SC 34 Secretariat	2002-03-08

5) SC 34 ROSTER

Dr. David Abrahamson Trinity College Computer Science Department Dublin 2, Ireland TELEPHONE:+ 353 1 702 1716 FAX: + 353 1 677 2204 E-MAIL: david@cs.tcd.ie	Ms. Sharon Adler Inso Corp. One Richmond Square Providence, RI 02906 USA TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 421 9550 FAX: + 1 401 421 9551 E-MAIL: sca@eps.inso.com
Ms. Barbara Beeton American Mathematical Society 201 Charles Street Providence, RI 02940 USA TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 455 4014 FAX: + 1 401 331 3842 E-MAIL: bnb@ams.org	Dr. Anders Berglund Berglund Consulting & Type Foundry 335 Shippee Road East Greenwich, RI 02818 USA TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 885 0471 FAX: + 1 401 885 0471 E-MAIL: alb@eps.inso.com
Karl Best, Director of Technical Operations OASIS 978.667.5115 x206 karl.best@oasis-open.org	Mr. Martin Bryan The SGML Centre 29, Oldbury Orchard Churchdown, Gloucester GL3 2PU United Kingdom TELEPHONE:+44 1452 714 029 FAX: +44 1452 714 029 E-MAIL: mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com
Mr. Norm Chenard VicomMultimedia 2611 129 Ave. Edmonton, Alberta T5A 3X7 Canada TELEPHONE:+1 403 452 4082 FAX: +1 403 452 4082 E-MAIL: nchenard@nereus.net	Mr. Mike Cowlishaw IBM UK Laboratories, Ltd. Mail Point 161, Hursley Park Winchester, Hampshire SO21 SJN United Kingdom TELEPHONE:+ 44 962 844 433 FAX: + 44 1 962 842 327 E-MAIL: mfc@vnet.ibm.com
Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb Information Management Consulting 13075 Paramount Court Saratoga, CA 95070 USA TELEPHONE:+ 1 408 867 5553 FAX: + 1 408 867 5794 E-MAIL: Charles@XMLHandbook.com	Ms. Sara Hafele American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 USA TELEPHONE: +1 212 642 4937 FAX: +1 212 840 2298 E-MAIL: shafele@ansi.org
Mr. Eliot Kimber eliot@isogen.com TELEPHONE: FAX: E-MAIL: eliot@isogen.	Dr. Yushi Komachi Panasoni/MGCS 2-3-8 Shimomeguro Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8687 Japan TELEPHONE:+ 81 3 5434 7053 FAX: + 81 3 5434 7158 E-MAIL: komachi@y-adagio.com
Dr. James Mason Y-12 National Security Complex Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208 P.O. Box 2009 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 USA TELEPHONE: + 1 865 574 6973 FAX: + 1 865 574 3868 E-MAIL: mxm@y12.doe.gov	Mr. Terry O'Donnell Adobe Systems, Inc. 1585 Charleston Road Mountain View, CA 94039-7900 USA TELEPHONE:+ 1 415 962 3836 FAX: + 1 415 961 3769 E-MAIL: odonnell@adobe.com
Mr. Akinori Okubo Ricoh Corp. TELEPHONE: FAX: E-MAIL: okubo@rdc.ricoh.co.jp	Mr. Steve Pepper STEP Infotek A.S. Gjerdrum's vei 12 Oslo, N-0486 Norway TELEPHONE:+47 2202 1680 FAX: +47 2202 1681 E-MAIL: pepper@ontopia.net
Dr. Lynne Price Text Structure Consulting, Inc. 17225 San Franciscan Drive Castro Valley, CA 94552 USA TELEPHONE:+1 510 583 1505 FAX: +1 510 583 1505 E-MAIL: 1price@txstruct.com	Dr. Hans Holger Rath STEP Sturz Electronic Publishing GmbH Technologiepark Wurzburg-Rimpar Pavillion 7, D-97222 Rimpar Germany TELEPHONE:+49 936 58 062 63 FAX: +49 936 58 062 66 E-MAIL: hhr@step.de
Dr. Richard Strehlow Termco, Inc. 5120 Kingston Pike Knoxville, TN 37919 USA TELEPHONE:+1 615 584 8739 FAX: E-MAIL: strehlow@usit.net

6) SC 34 Status Log

ISO Reference Number	W G	Pub.	Status	P*	Title/Subject	Comments	Due Date	Project Editor/ Expert
8879: 1986	1	1986	90.93		Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)			Charles Goldfarb
8879: 1986 / Amd 1	1	1986	60.60		Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)			Charles Goldfarb
9069: 1988	1	1988	90.20		SGML support facilities - Document Interchange Format (SDIF)	Under JTC 1 Periodic Review		Charles Goldfarb
8879: 1986 / Cor 1: 1996	1	1996	60.60		Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) - Corrigendum 1			Charles Goldfarb
8879: 1986 / Cor 2: 1999	1	1999	60.60		Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) - Corrigendum 2			Charles Goldfarb
9070: 1991	1	1991	90.93		SGML support facilities - Registration procedures for public text owner identifiers			Charles Goldfarb
9541- 1: 1991	2	1991	90.93		Font information interchange - Part 1: Architecture			Alan Greffee
9541- 1: 1991/ Cor 1: 1992	2	1992	60.60		Font information interchange - Part 1: Architecture -- Technical Corrigendum 1			Alan Greffee
9541- 1: 1991/ Cor 2: 1994	2	1994	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Technical Corrigendum 2			Alan Greffee
9541- 1: 1991/ Cor 3: 1995	2	1995	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Technical Corrigendum 3			Alan Greffee
9541- 1: 1991/ Amd 1	2	2001	60.60		Font information interchange - Part 1: Architecture -- Amendment 1: Typeface design grouping			Yushi Komachi
9541- 1: 1991/ Amd 2: 1998	2	1998	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Amendment 2: Minor enhancements to the architecture to address font technology advances			Yushi Komachi
9541- 1: 1991/ Amd 3: 2000	2	2000	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Amendment 3: Multilingual extensions to font resource architecture			Yushi Komachi
9541- 2: 1991	2	1991	90.93		Font information interchange - Part 2: Interchange Format			Yushi Komachi
9541- 2: 1991/ Cor 1: 1993	2	1993	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 2: Interchange Format -- Technical Corrigendum 1			Alan Greffee
9541- 2: 1991/ Cor 2: 1995	2	1995	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 2: Interchange Format -- Technical Corrigendum 2			Alan Greffee
9541- 2: 1991/ Amd 1: 2000	2	2000	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 2: Interchange Format -- Amendment 1: font technology advances			Yushi Komachi
9541- 3: 1994	2	1994	90.60		Font information interchange -- Part 3: Glyph shape representation			Terry O’Donnell
9541- 3: 1994/ PWI Amd 1	2		00.00		Font information interchange -- Part 3: Glyph shape representation -- Amendment 1			Yushi Komachi and Juergen Willrodt
TR 9544: 1988 (type 2)	1	1988	60.60		Computer- assisted publishing - Vocabulary			R. Strehlow
TR 9573: 1988 (type 3)	1	1988	60.60		SGML support facilities -- Techniques for using SGML
TR 9573- 11: 1992 (type 3)	1	1992	60.60		SGML support facilities -- Techniques for using SGML -- Part 11: Application at ISO SGML -- Central Secretariat for International Standards and Application Technical reports			Yushi Komachi
TR 9573- 13: 1991 (type 3)	1	1991	60.60		SGML support facilities -- Techniques for using SGML -- Part 13: Public entity sets pour SGML -- for mathematics and science			Anders Berglund
10036: 1996	2	1996	60.60		Font information interchange -- Procedures for registration of font- related identifiers			Yushi Komachi
10036: 1996/ Cor 1	2	2001	60.60		Font information interchange -- Procedures for registration of font- related identifiers-- Technical Corrigendum 1			Yushi Komachi
TR 10037: 1991 (type 1)	1		60.60		SGML and Text- entry Systems -- Guidelines for SGML Syntax- Directed Editing Systems			Mike Colishaw
10179: 1996	2	1996	60.60		Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL)			Sharon Adler
10179: 1996/ Cor 1	2	2001	60.60		Document Style Semantics and Specification Language -- (DSSSL) -- Technical Corrigendum 1			Shigeru Kaida
10179: 1996/ CD Amd 1	2	2001	20.99	*	Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) -- Amendment 1: Extensions to DSSSL	PDAM approved (N 258). Disposition of comments N 281.		Shigeru Kaida
10180: 1995	2	1995	90.60		Standard Page Description Language (SPDL)			Steve Strasen
10180: 1995 / COR 1: 2001	2	2001	60.60		Standard Page Description Language (SPDL)	Published 2001-10-15		Akinori Okubo
DIS 10743	3		40.60	*	Standard Music Description Language (SMDL)	Pending cancellation from ISO if no progression. Rec'd notice 2001/07		Steve Newcomb and Eliot Kimber
10744: 1997	3	1997	90.20		Hypermedia/ Time- based Structuring Language (HyTime)	Under JTC 1 Systematic Review		Charles Goldfarb
10744: 1997/ CD Amd 1	3		30.60	*	Hypermedia/ Time- based Structuring Language (HyTime) -- Amendment 1	Pending cancellation from ISO if no progression. Rec'd notice 2001/07		Charles Goldfarb
13240: 2001	3	2001	60.60		Information technology -- Interchange Standard for Multimedia Interactive Documents (ISMID)			Norm Chenard
13250: 2000	3	2000	60.60		SGML Applications -- Topic Maps			Martin Bryan
13250: Cor 1	3		30.92	*	Draft Technical Corrigendum Ballot on ISO/IEC 13250:2000 - Topic Maps	Many comments received in summary of voting N260. Project leader requested to address all comments received when drafting revised text.		WG3
13673: 2000	1	2000	60.60		Conformance testing for Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) systems			Lynn Price
TR 15413: 2001 (type 1)	2	2001	60.60		Font Services -- Abstract Services Definition			Yushi Komachi
15445: 2000	3		60.00		HyperText Markup Language (HTML)			David Abrahamson
CD 18048	3		30.20	*	SGML Applications -- Topic Map Query Language (TMQL)	NP (N183) and PDTR (N186) were approved. Comments received (N210) were forwarded on to the project leader to take into consideration when drafting the DTR.		Ann Wrightson
CD TR 18049	3		40.00	*	SGML Applications -- Topic Map Conceptual Model	NP (N184) and PDTR (N185) were approved. Comments received (N209) were forwarded on to the project leader to take into consideration when drafting the DTR.		D. Rivers-Moore
CD 19756	3		30.00		Topic Map Constraint Language	NP approved N 256.		WG 3
CD 19757	1		30.00		Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL)	NP approved N 257.		WG 1
TR 22250- 1	2		60.00	*	Text and office systems -- Regular Language Description for XML (RELAX) -- Part 1: RELAX Core	Document to be published, pending editorial issues within ISO.		Makoto Murata
TR 22250- 2 (fast track)	2		00.20		Regular Language Description for XML (RELAX)- Part 2: RELAX Namespace	Balloted within JTC 1 - closes 2002-05-8		Makoto Murata