From rinehuls@Radix.Net Mon Sep 27 23:59:44 1999 Received: from mail1.radix.net (mail1.radix.net [207.192.128.31]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA63751; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 23:59:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rinehuls@Radix.Net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mail1.radix.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA29601; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:00:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:00:35 -0400 (EDT) From: William Rinehuls To: sc22info@dkuug.dk cc: keld simonsen Subject: SC22 N3009 - Liaison Report from CEN/TC304 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 N3009 SUBJECT: Liaison Report from CEN/TC304 to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 DATE ASSIGNED: 1999-09-27 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Liaison Report PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: N/A ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: N/A 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 report ______________ Liaison Report from CEN/TC304 to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Source: Marc Wilhelm Kuester, Liaison Office from CEN/TC304 to SC22 Unfortunately, short term obligations have prevented me from attending this year's Berlin plenary of SC22 and to present my liaison report in person, as curtesy would normally have required me to do. I hope that this written report may serve as an acceptable substitute. CEN/TC304, "European Localization Requirements", has a long history of close cooperation with SC22 -- primarily, though not exclusively, in the arena of Cultural and Linguistic Adaptability. Many of the standards in SC22's WG20 have either originated in TC304 as the international standard on Procedures for Registration of Cultural Elements, IS 15897, the former ENV 12005, or are being developed in close cooperation with European delegates. In turn, many of the forthcoming standards of SC22 are of considerable importance and benefit for CEN/TC304. Above all, we may stress FCD 14651.3, the international standard on string ordering, a profile of which, the European Ordering Rules, are currently under ENV ballot. Coordination and harmonization of the two projects has been and continues to be a top priority of TC304. Other projects which make direct use of SC22 standards include the Eurolocale project and the Population of the Cultural Registry. The Eurolocale has passed its preliminary CWA (CEN Working Agreement) ballot a few weeks ago. This project defines a pan-European default POSIX locale which is to be used, amongst others, in the business of the European Commission. The Population of the Cultural Registry collects European locale date according to the registry standard 15897. Projects which are not related to any specific standard of SC22 but may be of interest to its members include a study on European requirements in the area of browsing and matching (string matching, markup languages, metadata...). Even this very brief report should give an idea of the intense cooperation between CEN/TC304 and working groups in SC22. CEN/TC304 draws substantial profit from this liaison for its work. We hope that SC22 members agree it is of mutual benefit and will continue to be so in the future. Marc Wilhelm Kuester ___________________________end of SC22 N3009 __________________________