From rinehuls@Radix.Net Sat May 15 00:19:27 1999 Received: from mail1.radix.net (mail1.radix.net [209.48.224.31]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA55023; Sat, 15 May 1999 00:19:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rinehuls@Radix.Net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [209.48.224.40]) by mail1.radix.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA00578; Fri, 14 May 1999 18:19:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:19:26 -0400 (EDT) From: William Rinehuls To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: SC22 N2923 - Liaison Between WG20 and World Wide Web Consortium - PLENARY AGENDA ITEM 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 N2923 TITLE: Statement of Mutual Benefits and Responsibilities: Liaison Between SC22/WG20 and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - PLENARY AGENDA ITEM DATE ASSIGNED: 1999-05-15 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: Discussion of this document will be an agenda item for the September 1999 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: N2921 DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def 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@radix.net ___________________ end of title page; beginning of statement __________ Liaison between the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and SC22/WG20 Statement of mutual benefits and responsibilities 1999-05-07 This statement is in support of a type C-Liaison between JTC1/SC22/WG20 and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The Internet has received much attention in the recent years, much because of the world wide web services. As these services are penetrating society on a global basis and are becoming of daily use to major parts of the population of the world, it is important that people be serviced on the web in their own language and culture. The working group JTC1/SC22/WG20 of ISO/IEC responsible for internationalization is producing standards in this area, and the W3C organisation, which is responsible for many standards for the world wide web services, is also producing specifications in the internationalization area specifically oriented towards use in the web services. Benefits: The W3C is producing specifications for an API on interationalization for web services. WG20 thinks that those specification could benefit by a better line of communication with WG20. SC22/WG20 develops international standards regarding internationalization. Since W3C 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: World Wide Web Consortium ________________ end of SC22 N2923 _____________________________________