From rinehuls@access.digex.net Mon Nov 16 19:21:19 1998 Received: from ratatosk.DK.net (root@ratatosk.DK.net [193.88.44.22]) by dkuug.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA20037; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:21:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rinehuls@access.digex.net) Received: from access2.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by ratatosk.DK.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10382; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:21:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA08723; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:21:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:21:01 -0500 (EST) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: SC22 N2842 - WG20 Request for Category C Liaison With Unicode - and letter ballot Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII _________________ beginning of title page _______________________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2842 TITLE: SC22/WG20 Request for Category C Liaison with the Unicode Consortium - and Letter Ballot DATE ASSIGNED: 1998-11-16 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: The statement of expected benefits and responsibilities required by the JTC 1 Directives is attached. This statement has been accepted by the Unicode Consortium. ACTION IDENTIFIER: ACT DUE DATE: 1999-03-08 DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DISTRIBUTION FORM: Open Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Telephone: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net ____________ end of title page; beginning of letter ballot ____________ Attachment to JTC 1/SC22 N2842 Circulation Date: 1998-11-30 LETTER BALLOT FROM THE MEMBER BODY OF _____________________________ On WG20 Request for Category C Liaision with the Unicode Consortium. This Letter Ballot is to be returned by each "P" Member Body to the Secretariat of JTC 1/SC22 by MARCH 8, 1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------- _____ We aspprove the Request for forwarding to ISO/IEC JTC 1 or _____ We approve the Request for forwarding to ISO/IEC JTC 1 with the attached comments or _____ We do not agree that this Request be forwarded to ISO/IEC JTC 1 for the technical reasons attached to this ballot or _____ We abstain from voting ("P" MEMBER BODIES HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO VOTE) * CHECK WHICHEVER APPLIES. From ______________________________ Signature (if mailed) _____________ Date: ______________________ ____________ end of letter ballot; beginning of statement ___________ LIAISON BETWEEN THE UNICODE CONSORTIUM AND SC22/WG20 STATEMENT OF MUTUAL BENEFITS AND RESPONSIBILITIES This statement is in support of a type C-Liaison between JTC 1/SC22/WG20 and the Unicode Consortium. Internationalization efforts do not occur in isolation. Almost every standard has an international aspect. One set of such standards are those for coded character sets. The character sets of the world rarely apply to a single language, and are often used in more than one country. All coded character set development has an international aspect, but this has increased in the last decade. The industry requirements for a character set to serve the global market-place has been satisfied by ISO/IEC 10646, which is code-point equivalent to the Unicode Standard. The member representatives of the Unicode Consortium are an industry expert resource for the implementation of the world's languages and the scripts used to write them. Benefits The Unicode Standard specifies not only the coding of characters, but also their properties and many other aspects of their use in implementations. The Unicode Consortium also develops algorithms and gives advice regarding culturally-dependent processing areas such as bi-directional text layout and the ordering of strings. These are main parts of the scope of SC22/WG20. SC22/WG20 would benefit from having a clear liaison line from the Unicode Consortium that would assist in the communication of developments by the Unicode Consortium that have a bearing on the work of SC22/WG20. Conversly, SC22/WG20 develops international standards regarding internationalization. Since the Unicode Consortium has a clear interest in such standards, it would benefit by having a liaison line from SC22/WG20 reporting on the progress in such standards development. Responsibilities: The two organizations will exchange information and contributions to common interest work on a regular basis. Whenever possible, they will send representatives to each others meetings. Approved: SC22/WG20 Approved: Unicode Consortium __________________ end of SC22 N2842 ________________________________