Subject: N 4205 - Canadian Contribution to the 25-28 September 2007 JTC 1/ SC 22 Plenary on the Transfer of ISO/IEC TR 14652

From: Sally Seitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:14:41 -0400

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 
Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces 
Secretariat:  U.S.A.  (ANSI) 
  
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N4205
  
TITLE: 
Canadian Contribution to the 25-28 September 2007 JTC 1/SC 22 Plenary on the
Transfer of ISO/IEC TR 14652

DATE: 
2007-05-10 
  
SOURCE: 
Canadian National Body

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DOCUMENT TYPE: 
National Body Contribution 
  
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STATUS:  
This document is circulated to JTC 1 National Bodies for review and
consideration at the September 2007 JTC 1/SC 22 Plenary.  This document will
be discussed under agenda item 7.1.1.

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Address reply to: 
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat 
Sally Seitz 
ANSI 
25 West 43rd Street 
New York, NY  10036 
Telephone:  (212) 642-4918 
Fax:             (212) 840-2298 
Email:  [email-masked] 
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Canada requests that this be put on the agenda for the upcoming SC22
plenary, with a specific recommendation to approve transfer 14652 to SC35

Canada notes that Project 14652 maintains TR14652 Specification of Cultural
Conventions, but SC22 has terminated its WG that takes care of this project
and other internationalization projects. SC35, at their most recent meeting,
has offered to take responsibility for this document, with the following
resolution:

Given that ISO/IEC 15897 (Registry of Cultural elements) maintenance has
been transferred to SC35, that this standard uses ISO/IEC TR 14652 as one of
the description formats for its registrations, and in relation to a request
to SC22 from Canada for a ballot to transfer ISO/IEC 14652  to SC35, SC35
provisionally accepts to host the maintenance of this International
Standard, conditionally to the adoption of a resolution by SC22. SC35/WG1
and WG5 already entertain activities related to other formats suitable for
the registry, in particular a format for describing keyboard layouts, and
SC35 would like to enhance ISO/IEC TR 14652 to that effect.

Sally Seitz
Program Manager
American National Standards Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Tel: 212 642 4918
Fax: 212 840 2298