SC22/WG20 N900 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3359 TITLE: Summary of Voting on SC 22 N3327, Letter Ballot on Future of SC 22/WG 20 (Internationalization) DATE ASSIGNED: 2002-01-14 SOURCE: SC 22 Secretariat BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Summary of Voting PROJECT NUMBER: STATUS: Per the results of this ballot, since there was no majority vote for either position, WG 20 will continue. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: SC 22 N3327 DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat Matt Deane ANSI 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 642-4992 Fax: (212) 840-2298 Email: mdeane@ansi.org __________end of cover page, beginning of summary____________ SUMMARY OF VOTING ON Letter Ballot Reference No: SC22 N3327 Circulated by: JTC 1/SC22 Circulation Date: 2001-10-05 Closing Date: 2002-01-07 SUBJECT: Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 3327, Letter Ballot on Future of SC22/WG20 (Internationalization) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following responses have been received on the subject of the future of SC 22/WG20 "P" Members supporting Choice 1 (Disbandment) 6 (Finland, Ireland*, Japan, Netherlands*, Sweden*, United States) "P" Members supporting Choice 2 (Continuation of WG20) 6 (Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Republic of Korea) "P" Members abstaining 4 (Czech Republic, Romania, Russian Federation, United Kingdom*) "P" Members not voting 7 (Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, DPR of Korea, Slovenia, Ukraine) *Denotes that comments were submitted -------------------------------------------------------------- National Body Comments Canada A home is required in JTC1 for internationalization. It makes no sense to abolish this WG to re-create it later on with the same mission. However, this WG should work in much closer relationship with SC35 (user interfaces) and SC2 (charset coding). All three planes of the infrastructure necessary for cultural and linguistic adaptability should be covered in any new projet: -programming functionality required for CLA and cross-language, cross-culture, cross-nation interoperability; -user interface necessary to control parameters; -coding requirement Ireland "Ireland's preference to disband WG20 and to reassign its existing projects to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 entails one exception. Maintenance of the ISO/IEC 14651 (International String Ordering) and tables for TR's (Annex A to TR 10176) which need to track newly added characters to ISO/IEC 10646 should be done in a committee that is intimately familiar with the repertoire and properties of additional characters, namely SC2/WG2." Netherlands With the condition that there will be a liaison-officer Sweden Divide the ongoing work into SC 22 and forward the work with 14651 to SC 2. United Kingdom Comments: 1. There is no consensus in the UK to either continue WG20 as is, given the problems that have been associated with its work, or to close it, given the importance that the UK attaches to the issue of Internationalization. 2. It is our understanding that the existing Convenor will not be continuing at the end of his appointed term, should WG20 not be closed. In these circumstances the UK believes that it will be in a position to submit a nominee for the position (Professor Pat Hall, Open University). 3