ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 **N1867**

# ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 Document Processing and Relating Communication--- Document Description and Processing Languages {#isoiec-jtc1sc18wg8-document-processing-and-relating-communication-document-description-and-processing-languages .Heading-0-(nobreak)}

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| **Title:**        | Meeting Notice and Draft Agenda, Regular Meeting |
|                   | of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8, Document Description   |
|                   | and Processing Languages, 11 November--15        |
|                   | November 1996, Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A.      |
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| **Source:**       | WG8                                              |
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| **Project:**      | All WG8 projects                                 |
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| **Status of       | Official meeting notice and draft agenda         |
| Document:**       |                                                  |
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| **Requested       | For information                                  |
| action:**         |                                                  |
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| **Summary of      | The Second meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 in   |
| major points:**   | 1996 will be held at the University Club of      |
|                   | Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.            |
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|                   | Note: the U.S. National Body for SC18, X3V1,     |
|                   | will be meeting concurrently with WG8 from       |
|                   | Wednesday through Friday. ISO experts are        |
|                   | welcome as observers in the U.S. Plenary on      |
|                   | Wednesday morning. The closing plenary of the    |
|                   | X3V1 meeting will be held on Friday afternoon,   |
|                   | after the close of the WG8 meeting.              |
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|                   | There is no official hotel for this meeting. The |
|                   | University Club is in the Copley Square area of  |
|                   | Boston, where there are many hotels, including   |
|                   | the Hilton and Sheraton. GCA's SGML '96          |
|                   | conference is being held at the Sheraton the     |
|                   | week after the WG8 meeting; if you are attending |
|                   | that, you might want to register for two weeks.  |
|                   | For more information on the conference, look at  |
|                   | http://www.gca.org/conf/sgml96/index.htm         |
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|                   | Those bringing documents to the meeting should   |
|                   | bring 25 copies.                                 |
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| **Distribution:** | WG8 and liaisons                                 |
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# Draft Agenda for November 1996 Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 Document Description and Processing Languages {#draft-agenda-for-november-1996-meeting-of-isoiec-jtc1sc18wg8-document-description-and-processing-languages .Heading-0}

**Dates:** 11 November--15 November 1996

**Location:** University Club of Boston\
426 Stuart Street\
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.\
Telephone: +1 617 266 5600

# 1. Opening Plenary (0900h--1100h, 11 November, President's Room, University Club of Boston)

## A. Opening of meeting

### i. Roll call of delegates

### ii. Convenor\'s remarks

## B. Presentation of liaison reports

## C. Presentation of national activity reports

## D. Status reports on current projects

#### **Project JTC1.18.15** Computer Languages for Processing Text

##### **Work Item JTC1.18.15.1** ISO 8879 Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) 

###### Project Editor: Charles F. Goldfarb

##### **Work Item JTC1.18.15.6** Text Composition

###### JTC1.18.15.6.1: ISO Dis 10179 Document Style Semantics and Specification Language

###### Project Editor: Sharon Adler

###### JTC1.18.15.6.2: ISO DIS 10180 Standard Page Description Language

###### Project Editors: Steve Zilles and Steve Strasen

##### **Work Item JTC1.18.15.7** SGML Support Facilities---

###### General Editor: Charles F. Goldfarb

###### JTC1.18.15.7.1: ISO 9069 SGML Document Interchange Format (SDIF)

###### Project Editor: Charles F. Goldfarb

###### JTC1.18.15.7.2: TR 9573 Techniques for Using SGML

###### Project Editor: Anders Berglund

###### JTC1.18.15.7.3: ISO 9070 Registration Procedures for Public Text Owner Identifiers

###### Project Editor: Charles F. Goldfarb

#### **Project JTC1.18.27** Description and Identification of Glyph Fonts

###### General Editor: Alan Griffee

#### **Project JTC1.18.33** Font Services

###### Project Editor: 

#### **Project JTC1.18.36** ISO 13673 Conformance Testing for SGML Systems

###### Project Editor: Lynne Price

#### **Project JTC1.18.39.1** DIS 10743 Standard Music Description Language (SMDL)

###### Project Editor: Charles Goldfarb

#### **Project JTC1.18.39.2** ISO/IEC 10744 Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime)

###### Project Editor: Charles Goldfarb

#### **Project JTC1.18.40** Abstract Definition of SGML for Binary Encoding (SGML-B)

###### Project Editors: Charles Goldfarb, David Abrahamson

## E. Assignments to draft responses to liaison statements

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# 2. Division into technical discussions (Monday, University Club of Boston)

#######  Work Item JTC1.18.15.1 Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and related projects

#######  Work Item JTC1.18.15.6 Text Composition---

#######  JTC1.18.15.6.1 Document Style Semantics and Specification Language 

#######  Work Item JTC1.18.27 Description and Identification of Glyph Fonts

# 3. Document distribution for closing plenary (1700 h, Thursday)

# 4. Closing plenary (0830--1200 h, 15 November)

## A. Review of recommendations and documents for circulation to SC18 and liaisons

## B. Review of priorities and schedules

## C. Assignment of liaisons and editors

## D. Review of meeting and assignment of work for next meeting

## E. Place and date of next meeting

**NOTE:** Convenors of RGs should have documents which will be needed
for the closing plenary ready for duplication at noon on Thursday and
should be ready to indicate to the full working group at that time what
items will be presented for decision (recommendations, liaison
statements).