From alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca Tue Feb 10 19:56:45 1998 Received: from riq.qc.ca (socrate.riq.qc.ca [199.84.128.1]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA23672; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:56:40 +0100 Received: from laba01.sct.gq (ppp124.gouv.qc.ca [192.197.162.124]) by riq.qc.ca (1.1/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA20947; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:48:56 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980210135028.0070f664@mail.riq.qc.ca> X-Sender: alb@mail.riq.qc.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) [F] Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:50:28 -0500 To: (Suppression de la liste des destinataires) From: Alain LaBonté  Subject: (TC304.1482) Resolutions from Brussels 4 Feb 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:55:11 +0000 >To: TC304@dkuug.dk >From: Thorgeir Sigurdsson >X-Sequence: TC304@dkuug.dk 1482 >Errors-To: TC304-request@dkuug.dk >Subject: (TC304.1482) Resolutions from Brussels 4 Feb 1998 > >Hi:) > >It was my intention not to put the resolution from TC304 Brussels plenary to >our email exploder until I had put them in the form demanded by the CEN >central secretariat. Because of the discussion of one of the resolution on >our TC email list, I will however not delay giving them to you. > >The following are the draft resolution of the CEN/TC304 plenary in Brussels >4th of February 1998. > >National bodies present at the beginning of the meeting were from Germany, >Netherlands, Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, UK, Sweden, Greece >and Norway. > >All resolutions were prepared in advance and were available in the beginning >of the meeting, except resolution 19 which was presented after Greece and >Norway had left. > >The resolutions that were first voted on, came from the open meetings on the >Euro (resolution2 15-18) and on the MES (resolutions 20-23) and were the >consensus of those meetings. > >Žorgeir >(Thorgeir Sigurdsson, secretary of CEN/TC 304) > >------ > >Draft resolutions > >Resolution on Business Plan > >1 CEN/TC304 instructs its secretary to prepare a proposal for a revised TC >business plan using input from document N783 and from TC members. >- Finland Germany UK, Netherlands, Sweden for >- Denmark against > >Resolutions on Internal projects > >2 CEN/TC304 instructs its Project Team on Ordering to include in its scope >the content of the Project 1.5 'Co-operation in String Ordering' (Dublin >resolution 42). CEN/TC resolves to delete Project 1.5 from its business plan >and from its program of work. >- Unanimous > >3 CEN/TC304 resolves to delete internal project 15 'Input to the development >of ISO 10646' from its business plan and from its program of work. >- Unanimous > >4 CEN/TC304 resolves to delete internal project 16 'Character glyph >correspondence' from its business plan and from its program of work. >- Unanimous > >5 CEN/TC304 resolves to delete internal project 18 'Maintenance of WWW >pages' from its program of work. Maintenance of WWW pages for CEN/TC304 will >be the responsibility of the secretariat of CEN/TC304. >- Unanimous > >6 CEN/TC304 resolves to delete internal project 20 'Workshops and promotion' >from its program of work. >- Unanimous > >7 CEN/TC304 resolves to appoint Keld Simonsen as rapporteur for the >internal project 4 'Taxonomy' >- Unanimous > >8 CEN/TC304 instructs its secretary to clarify the situation with internal >project 23 'European names on Travel documents' or 'Monitoring the testing >of OCR-B' in the contract with the Commission. >- Unanimous > >Resolutions on liaisons: > >9 CEN/TC 304 recognises that the role of its liaison and cooperation >officers is to provide for active communication between the affected >organisations. In so doing, CEN/TC 304 resolves to reassess the usefulness >of the current liaisons and coopereation and the performance of the current >officers in its next meeting in Reykjavķk and instructs its secretary to >prepare a report to that effect. >- Finland UK, Netherlands, Sweden for, >- Denmark abstained > >Resolution on CEN/Work shops > >10 CEN/TC 304 instructs its secretary to prepare the application including a >draft business plan for all the CEN/ ISSS workshops necessary to facilitate >the fulfilment of the contract with the Commission. Once approved by the >National Bodies, the secretary is to call for the kick-off meeting, in order >to allow for active participation by the interested parties already prior to >the workshop kick-off meeting which would normally be held in conjunction >with the TC plenary. >- Unanimous > >Resolution on ISO 3166 > >11 CEN/TC 304 urgently requests that ISO/IEC TC46 should expand the scope >of ISO >3166 to include multinational and other geographical entities such as those >listed by the United >Nations Statistical Division in its publication. >- Unanimous >Action on Secretary to forward this resolution > >Resolution on ISO 639 > >12 CEN/TC304 requests that ISO/TC46 and ISO/TC37 should clarify the scope >and application area for 2-letter and 3-letter language codes in ISO 639, >for usage of these codes beyond terminology and bibliographical >applications. It also requests that its earlier request for additional codes >be processed as soon as possible within the JWG and/or the ISO 639 >maintenance agencies. >- Unanimous >Action on Secretary to forward this resolution > >Resolution on selection report > >13 CEN/TC304 resolves to confirm the project teams as appointed by the >Selection Committee in document N786. CEN/TC304 also resolves to authorise >the Selection Committee to make any changes found necessary by the Selection >Committee and the Project Team leader. >- Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, for >- Denmark against >- UK abstained > >Resolution on General Plan for Project Teams > >14 CEN/TC304 approves the General Plan for Project teams as in document N780 >- Unanimous > >Resolutions proposed to the TC plenary as result of the Euro Workshop. > >15 CEN/TC304 recognises that there is no need to develop a European keyboard >layout standard based on the Euro requirements only. However CEN/TC 304 >recommends the implementation of the proposed recommendation from the EC >commission (as described in doc N774) which matches what the IT industry and >customers have requested. The recommendation suggests using the AltGr + e >in most national keyboard layouts as the preferred solution and CEN/TC 304 >encourages its incorporation into the future editions of the ISO/IEC 9995 >standard. >- Germany abstained, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, UK, Ireland, Netherlands for >Action on secretary to send this to ISO/IEC JTC1/WG5. > >16 CEN/TC304 recommends adding the Euro sign into to the glyph repertoire of >OCR-B (ISO 1073 part 2). This should be considered at the next meeting of >ISO/IEC JTC1 SC2/WG3 in Seattle, March 1998. >- Germany abstained, >- Sweden, Denmark, UK, Ireland, Netherlands for > Action on secretary to forward this resolution. > >17 CEN/TC304 expresses the need for the Euro Sign to be entered using >telephone keypads. CEN/TC304 also recommends that ANEC (European >Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer Representation in >Standardization) and ETSI User Group provide a recommended best position >based on customer and industry input. >- Germany abstained, >- Sweden, Denmark, UK, Ireland, Netherlands for > >18 CEN/TC304 recognises the need to provide the encoding for the Euro Sign >in the 8 >bit coded character set standards. CEN/TC304 urges ISO/IEC JTC1 SC2/WG3 to >provide timely solutions. >- Germany against, >- Sweden, Denmark, UK, Ireland, Netherlands for > >19 CEN/TC304 resolves that the organization of a CEN Workshop should be >initiated to discuss the problem of introducing the Euro sign into 8-bit >coded character sets, with special emphasis on the European ICT situation. >- Germany, Netherlands and Belgium against >- Iceland, Ireland abstained >- Finland, Denmark, UK, Sweden for >Action on the secretary to prepare a request to the ISSS and eventually the >National Bodies and to make the actual workshop conditional. > >Resolutions from meeting on MES > >20 CEN/TC 304 recognises that the name 'Minimum European Subset' carries >some undesirable implications and resolves that the full name of 'MES' >should be 'Multilingual European Subset and that there can be a number of >subsets labelled MES 1, MES 2 and so on. >- Unanimous > >21 CEN/TC 304 resolves that each Multilingual European Subset should have a >clearly stated scope and field of application. >- Unanimous > >22 CEN/TC 304 recognises the need for a Multilingual European Subset that >represents the repertoire of ISO/IEC 6937 and recommends to the Project Team >on the MES that it should be identified as MES 1. >- Finland, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Sweden for >- Denmark against > >23 CEN/TC 304 recognises the need for a Multilingual European Subset based >on, but not necessarily identical with, the Minimum European Subset >specified in ENV 1973, which will be the basis for further standardisation >concerning language processing such as sorting, matching and browsing rules. >CEN/TC304 recommends to the Project Team on the MES that it should specify >such a subset and provide a rationale for the characters that it contains. >- Finland, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Sweden for >- Denmark against > >Resolution on Žorvaršur > >24 CEN/TC 304 expresses its appreciation for the diligent work of Žorvaršur >Kįri Ólafsson as the secretary of CEN/TC 304 >- By acclamation > >Resolution on next meeting > >25 CEN/TC 304 resolves that the next TC plenary meeting after Reykjavik in >June 8-11 shall be in Brussels November with suggested date of 23-25 1998. >- Unanimous > >Resolution on host > >26 CEN/TC 304 expresses its thanks to the staff of CEN/ISSS for hosting this >meeting. >- By acclamation > >