ISO/ IEC 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

SC2/WG2 held one meeting in February 2012 in Mountain View, CA. since the last SC2 plenary in June 2011.

Here is a summary of projects currently assigned to WG 2.

1.       Published ISO/IEC 10646:2012, 3rd Edition in June 2012-06-01

2.       Amendment 1 to 3rd edition of ISO/IEC 10646.

3.       Amendment 2 to 3rd Edition of ISO/IEC 10646.

2.       SC2/WG2 program of work.

Here are the accomplishments of WG2 since the last SC 2 plenary in Helsinki.

 

ISO/IEC 10646: 2012 (Ed. 3)

Information technology – Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) (Freely available from the ITTF web site)

Published 2012-06-01

Amendment 1

Palmyrene, Old North Arabian, Sindhi, Mro, Bassa Vah, and other characters

 

Prepared a disposition of comment on PDAM 1.2 [SC 2 N 4224 (WG 2 N4239) ] and a revised text for DAM 1 ballot

 

Prepared Proposed Disposition of comments on DAM 1 [SC 2 N 4259 (WG 2 N4346)]

Amendment 2

Caucasian Albanian, Psalter Pahlavi, Old Hungarian, Mahajani, Grantha, Modi, Pahawh Hmong, Mende, and other characters

 

Prepared Disposition of comments on PDAM 2.1 [SC 2 N 4254 (WG 2 N4306 Revised)] and revised text for PDAM 2.2

 

Prepared Proposed disposition of comments on PDAM 2.2  [SC 2 N 4260 (WG 2 N4334)

 

3.       Other Achievements:

1.       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.

2.       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, for use by officers.

3.       Project Editor worked proactively with IRG experts and liaison organizations to prepare for the publication of the 3rd Edition to include Han ideographs in multiple-column format.

4.       Published Road Map snapshot document (N4320) on 2012-09-12.

5.       Published an updated Principles & Procedures (N4102) on 2012-01-04.

 

4.       Proposals for future WG2 meetings:

  1. Approve Disposition of Comments DAM 1- 3rd edition of ISO/IEC 10646.
  2. Process PDAM 2.2 of 3rd Edition of ISO/IEC 10646
  3. Update the Roadmaps of 10646
  4. Update Principles & Procedures
  5. Review additional contribution experts of national bodies, liaison organizations and others.

5.       SC2 issues for consideration/approval:

  1. Approve the disposition of comments on DAM 1 of 3rd edition ISO/IEC 10646.
  2. Approve the disposition of comments on PDAM 2.2 of the 3rd edition.
  3. Approve appointment of the new Rapporteur of the IRG Dr. Lu Qin for a new term that ends at the next SC2 plenary meeting.
  4. Approve the resolutions of meeting 59 in Mountain View, CA in February 2012.
  5. Approve the resolutions of meeting 60 in Chiang Mai, Thailand in October 2012.
  6. Approve future meetings of SC2/WG2 – Meetings 61 and 62 as follows:

Meeting 61                   2013-06-10/14 , Vilnius, Lithuania (Backup, Germany)

Meeting 62                   2014-02-24/28, West Coast US (pending location confirmation)

Meeting 63                    2014-09, Sri Lanka (tentative); backup: China; co-located with SC2
  1. Reconfirm Project Editor Mr. Michel Suignard
  2. Review and appoint liaison coordinators until next SC2 plenary
  3. Post latest snap shot of the Roadmap (N4320) to SC2 web site.

6.       WG2 Liaisons

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

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

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

A number of convener's reports are available: