From rinehuls@access.digex.net Wed Jul 2 18:20:26 1997 Received: from ratatosk.DK.net (root@ratatosk.DK.net [193.88.44.22]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA09607 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 18:20:25 +0200 Received: from access5.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access5.digex.net [205.197.245.196]) by ratatosk.DK.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA03926 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 18:20:21 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access5.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA07075 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:18:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:18:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2508 - Request for Workshop on Cultural Adaptability 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 N2508 July 1997 TITLE: Request for a JTC 1 Workshop on Cultural Adaptability SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: Note that consideration of this request will be an agenda item for the August 1997 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary. CROSS REFERENCE: SC22 N2510 DOCUMENT TYPE: N/A ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies, WG Conveners and HODS for consideration. Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Tel: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net ____________________end of title page; beginning of text _____________ ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology ISO/IEC JTC 1 N 4789 DATE: 1997.06.25 REPLACES DOC TYPE: Other document TITLE: Request for a JTC 1 Workshop on Cultural Adaptability SOURCE: JTC 1 Secretariat PROJECT: STATUS: As per Reengineering Ad Hoc Recomemndation 7, this document is circulated to JTC 1 National Bodies for a 60-day letter ballot. Subcommittees are encouraged to participate in this Workshop and to submit an offer to Host the Workshop. ACTION ID: LB DUE DATE: 1997.08.29 DISTRIBUTION: P and L Members MEDIUM: D DISKETTE NO.: 139 NO. OF PAGES: 3 Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1, American National Standards Institute, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036; Telephone: 1 212 642 4932; Facsimile: 1 212 398 0023; Email: lrajchel@ansi.org In accordance with JTC 1 Reengineering Ad Hoc Recommendation 7, the JTC 1 Secretariat is issuing a 60 day letter ballot to authorize a Workshop on Cultural Adaptability to be held no later than March 1998. The recommended scope of the Workshop is as follows: * Engage multiple Technical Direction JTC 1 participation * Develop policies to guide activities (in a like manner to that of interoperability and portability) * Develop a process to ensure cultural adaptability * Elaborate or amend the definition of cultural adaptability as contained in document JTC 1 N 4627 * Recommended placement for Coded Character Sets and the relationship with User Interface * Increase the responsiveness of JTC 1 to cultural adaptability issues and increase the visibility of JTC 1 in this endeavor * Recommendations from the HLSG on CALS concerning multi-byte character sets and internationalization should be taken into consideration JTC 1 Subcommittees are encouraged to participate in this Workshop. JTC 1 Subcommittees are further encouraged to submit an offer to serve as the Host for this Workshop. The results of this Workshop are to be submitted to JTC 1 for review and approval by the JTC 1 National Bodies. Based on the Workshop conclusions, JTC 1 expects to receive Workshop recommendations on the placement within JTC 1 of SC 22/WG 20 (Internationalization) and SC 2 (Coded Character Sets). ______________end of SC22 N2508 _________________________________