ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC2/WG2 N2688

ISO/IEC JTC 1 N7311

2003-12-03

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ISO/IEC JTC 1
Information Technology

Document Type: Other document (Open)Document Title:

SC 2 Chairman’s Presentation to the November 2003 JTC 1 Plenary Meeting in Singapore

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SC 2 Chairman

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9Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1, American National Standards Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036; Telephone: 1 212 642 4932;
Facsimile: 1 212 840 2298; Email: lrajchel@ansi.org

SC 2 Business Plan(Coded Character Sets)

Kohji Shibano
SC 2 Chair1

SC 2 Scope

SCOPE

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Standardisation of graphic character sets and their characteristics,
associated control functions, their coded representation for
information interchange, and code extension techniques. Excluded:
audio and picture coding

Two WGs

WG2 16 bit and 32 bit coding
 UCS 10646

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WG3 7 bit and 8 bit coding
 coded character sets- 646, 6937, 8859
 code structure and code extension technique - 2022, 4873
 control functions - 6429
 Registration procedure of coded character sets - 2375

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SC 2 Meetings & Members
Since last JTC 1 Plenary meetingSC 2: 2002-12-12, Tokyo, JapanWG 2: 2002-12-09/12, Tokyo, Japan

WG 2: 2003-10-20/23, Mountain View, CA, USA
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35 P Members
Future meetings
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WG2, 2004-06-21/24, Markham, Ontario, Canada

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SC2 Plenary, 2004-06-24/25, Markham, Ontario, Canada3

SC 2 Projects (including latest updates)Total Number of Projects:
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NP:
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50 including all subprojects
NoneNew Subprojects:
ISO/IEC 10646 (Single part version）Amd 1（SC 2 ballot will be closed on 2004-0131）
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SC 2 Achievements (including latest updates)
Since the last JTC 1 Plenary in November 2003:
 Published projects: 1

ISO/IEC 2375: 2003, Procedure for registration of escape sequences(2003-02-15)

Projects progressed to FDIS/FDAM:
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Amendment 2 to ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000, Limbu, Tai Le, Yijing andother characters (approved)
Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC 10646-2: 2001, Aegean, Ugaritic, and othercharacters (approved) Sent ISO/IEC 10646（Single part version） to ITTF for publication

FDIS 8859-7, 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 7:
Latin/Greek alphabet (published 2003-10-15)

Projects progressed to FCD/FPDAM: None5

Opportunities and Risks
RisksCouncil Resolution 32/2003
 b) no copyright fee should be charged for the reproduction of the2-digit codes of ISO 3166, ISO 4217 and ISO 639 in books,
magazines, academic work and for internal use by companies,institutes and organizations; c) regarding the proposal that software developers or commercial
resellers requesting permission to embed ISO codes in theirproducts for resale would be required to purchase each code inelectronic form and to pay to the member body concerned or theCentral Secretariat, as appropriate, either an annual fee or a onetime fee and any applicable maintenance fees, asks the CPSG toelaborate further on the clarification it wants from Council and tosubmit a new proposal.
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SC 2 supports ISO copyright rules on its publications. However, if the same
copyright rules applied to embed ISO codes into software products as foundin CPSG recommendations, implementers will go to free de fact standards.
Thus CPSG recommendation c) hurts future SC 2 standard development.
SC 2 strongly asks JTC 1 to object to CPSG recommendation c).

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Opportunities and Risks (cont’d)Opportunities

New requirements
 Transfer of project ISO/IEC 14651 (International string ordering andcomparison) from SC 22 to SC2

In response to JTC1 CCCCLM meeting resolution, SC 2 conducted a ballot on
the transfer simultaneously with SC 22 and both SCs passed the proposedtransfer.

 SC 22 request to SC 2 to consider to develop standard character repertoireidentifiers

Near completion of on going maintenances of WG 3 workStrategyAlign scope to capture new requirements
Restructure WG organization

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Work PriorityWG 2 16 bit and 32 bitAmendments to10646

Respond to new requirements

Collation
Character repertoire identifier8