ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34                                                   

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N 145                



DATE:  2000-05-24     



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DOC TYPE:

Other document (Open)                                                 



TITLE:

Letter from GLOCOM Regarding the Registration Authority for ISO/IEC   

10036                                                                 



SOURCE:

Y. Yamanouchi, GLOCOM                                                 



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For review and discussion under Agenda Item 9.2.1 at the 10-15 June   

2000 JTC 1/SC 34 Plenary Meeting in Paris, France.                    



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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, American National Standards Institute, 11 West   

42nd Street, New York, NY  10036, Tel:  +1 212 642 4976, Fax:  +1 212 

840 2298, Email:  mpeacock@ansi.org                                   



 

 

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34

Secretariat

Dear Ms. Peacock,

Responding to your e-mail to Yushi Komachi, I will inform you of Glocom's

position on the responsibility for the ISO/IEC 10036.

The importance of font-related identifiers, particularly glyph

identifiers, is increasing independently from the increase in character

code spaces. Basically, ideographs like kanji are much more flexible than

standardized entities such as coded characters.

It is our conviction that anybody who will wish to have unique

identifiers for his own ideographs or other objects should be registrable.

Those objects may also be requried to be interchanged in an open

electronic document environment.

Those requirements, we believe, can be satisfied by the mechanism of

international registration. The ISO/IEC 10036 works well to carry out the

registration of font-related identifiers.

If accepted, Glocom wishes to take responsibility of registration

authority for ISO/IEC 10036.

For your information, I below is a link to the Glocom website.

http://www.glocom.ac.jp

 

 

Best regards,

Yasuhide Yamanouchi Professor,

Center for Global Communications (Glocom)

International University of Japan

Harks Roppongi Bldg. 2F, 6-15-21 Roppongi

Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106-0032

Japan

tel: +81-3-5411-6681

Fax: +81-3-5412-7111