WG2 - Projects

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 program of work and milestones

Here are the details of all WG2 work items/projects within SC2:

1. Achievements since last SC2 plenary

Here is a summary of projects completed and published as amendments since the last SC2 plenary in June 2011 and the last WG2 meeting 59 in Mountain View, CA in February 2012:

1. Balloting FDIS - 3rd Edition ISO/IEC 10646

2. Balloting DAM 1 - 3rd edition with an additional 1768 characters per resolution document of meeting 59 (N4254)

3. Balloting Subdivision of work (WG2 N4248) in SC2 then JTC1

The details of SC2/WG2 program of work are available via a link to the SC2 web site.

There is a link to the list of open ballots on the JTC1 web site and/or SC2 web site home page.  Here is a list of the open ballots:

Title	Due Date
FDIS ISO/IEC 10646 - Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) - 3rd edition	2012-11
DAM 1 - ISO/IEC 10646 - 3rd Edition (1768 characters)	DAM: 2012-03, FDAM 2012-11
Subdivision of work - Amendment 2 - 900 characters	PDAM 2012-03, DAM 2012-11 and FDAM 2013-07

3. Other Achievements:

1. Re-appointment of the new Rapporteur of the IRG Dr. Lu Qin for a new term that ends at the next SC2 plenary meeting in Chiang-Mai, Thailand

2. Approval future meetings of SC2/WG2 as follows:

Meeting 60        2012-10-22/26            Chiang Mai, Thailand
Meeting 61        2013-06-10/14            Vilnius, Lithuania; Backup host: Germany in Berlin
Meeting 62        4th quarter 2013        Looking for host

3. Posted latest snap shot of the Roadmap (WG2 N4186) to SC2 web site.

4. Updated the World Wide Web site for WG2 and posted an increasing number of documents to the site. The URL is at http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2.  Mike Ksar, the convener, is also the web master.

5. No paper distribution since meetings 40.  Documents were available on the web site for downloading and accessing online.  WG2 expects that this would be the norm for distributing WG2 documents.  Hosting organizations make hard copy of meeting documents available at every meeting, if possible.

6. Update the Principles & Procedures document N4102.

4.  Proposals for future WG2 meetings:

   1. Process FDIS - 3rd edition of ISO/IEC 10646.

   2. Process DAM 1

   3. Process subdivision of work Amendment 2

   4. Update Roadmaps of 10646

   5. Update Principles and Procedures document

   6. Review additional contribution experts of national bodies, liaison organizations and others.

5. SC2 issues for consideration/approval:

All above requests were considered and approved at SC2 plenary meeting 16 on 2011-06-10 in Helsinki.

6. WG2 Liaisons

WG2 continues to work very closely with the following liaison organizations.

·         The Unicode Consortium

·         Taipei Computer Association (TCA)

·         Hong Kong Information Technology Federation (HKITF)

·         W3C

·         IETF

·         SEI – UC Berkeley

In addition, WG2 has worked very closely with the following working groups but no official liaison exists between them and WG2.

·         ISO TC37/SC2

·         ISO/TC46/SC2

·         SC22 – Programming Languages

·         ECMA TC39 - Scripting & Programming Languages

7. Mailing List

The average number of recipients of WG2 documents is about 100. Their national bodies or individuals that are linguistic and/or technical experts on coding technology nominate them. The number of attendees, representing about 19 national bodies, 3 liaison organizations and 18 affiliations, is now steady at an average of 35 people per meeting. There are approximately 200 technical experts who actively provide input to our working group. 

    8.  Convener's reports

• Convener report 2011
• Convener report 2009
• Convener report 2008
• Convener report 2004
• Convener report 2002
• Convener report 2001
• Convener report 2000
• Convener report 1999
• Convener report 1998
• Convener report 1997