ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 N 1122
DATE: 2008-11-21
 

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34
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Secretariat: Japan (JISC)

DOC. TYPE Meeting Report
TITLE Report of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Meeting held in Jeju, Republic of Korea, 2008-10-01
SOURCE SC 34 Secretariat
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STATUS This document is circulated to the SC 34 members for information.
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Secretariat ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 - IPSJ/ITSCJ (Information Processing Society of Japan/Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan)* Room 308-3, Kikai-Shinko-Kaikan Bldg., 3-5-8, Shiba-Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011 Japan *Standard Organization Accredited by JISC
Telephone: +81-3-3431-2808; Facsimile: +81-3-3431-6493; E-mail: kimura@itscj.ipsj.or.jp


Report of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Plenary Meeting held in Jeju, Republic of Korea, 2008-10-01

1. Opening of opening plenary meeting

Dr. Sam Oh, Acting chairman of SC 34, opened the meeting at 10:00 a.m.

1.1 Remarks of our host

Dr. Dr. Jaeho LEE, Head of the Korean delegation, welcomed the participants.

2. Roll call of Delegates

The meeting had 41 participants from the following 15 National Bodies and one Liaison organization:

Brazil, Canada, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea (Republic of), Norway, South Africa, UK, USA and Ecma International

The list of the attendees is attached to this report.

3. Adoption of the Agenda:

The draft agenda in Document N 1049 Rev.3 was adopted without modifications.

4. Appointment of Drafting Committee

The WG Conveners, SC 34 Chair, Secretary and Mr. Francis Cave (UK), Mr. Dave Welsh (USA) were appointed as the drafting committee members.

5. Chairman's Remarks

The Chair thanked the participants for coming to this meeting and for their commitment to the standardization work. He encouraged continuous cooperation on the consensus based discussion.

6. Secretariat's Remarks

Ms. Kimura presented Document: N 1072 Rev. She thanked the WG conveners and editors who contributed to the recent progress of the projects.

7. Reports of and review of ISO/IEC Liaisons

7.1 IEC TC 100 - Audio, Video and Multimedia Systems and Equipment

Dr. Komachi reported that a project for Multimedia e-publishing and e-books - Interchange format for e-dictionaries has been started in IEC/TC 100.

7.2 ISO/TC 46 - Information and documentation

No report

7.3 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 - Data Management and Interchange

No report.

7.4 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 - Coded character sets

No report.

7.5 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 - Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces

Mr. Rex Jaeschke, reported that SC 22 had its plenary meeting in Milan, Italy, in September 2008. At present, there is no project which requires synchronization of work with SC 34.

7.6 ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 29 (WG 11) - Coding of Moving Pictures and

No report.

8. Reports of and review of External Liaisons

8.1 Ecma International (TC 45 and TC 46)

TC 45:

Mr. Rex Jaeschke presented Document: N 1060. In addition, he noted that as the project editor, he has submitted the final version of ISO/IEC 29500 texts to ITTF for publication and Ecma will publish the same contents as the 2nd edition of Ecma 336. The Ecma version will be balloted for adoption by Ecma GA in December 2008. TC 45 will meet as necessary to cooperate SC 34 for the maintenance of ISO/IEC 29500.

TC 46: N 1061

Mr. Rex Jaeschke presented Document: N 10601 and reported the progress of standardization of XPS (XML Paper Specification).

8.2 OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

Mr. Patrick Durussau reported that the OASIS ODF TC has responded to the first set of defect reports to ODF 1.0 and ISO/IEC 26300 submitted by SC 34.

Document N 1017 (SoV on PAS Submitter status renewal) and N 1058 (Response to N 1017) were considered by WG 1. Thus this item was combined with the WG 1 report.

8.3 XML Guild

No report

8.4 W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

The Chair noted that he has received an e-mail message from W3C that it has a great interest in SC 34 and wants to re-activate the liaison relationship with SC 34.

9. ISO/IEC JTC1 Activities of Interest to SC34

9.1 JTC 1/SWG on Accessibility

As per Resolution 1 of the SC 34 Oslo meeting, the Secretary reported on the SWG-Accessibility meeting held in Tokyo, Japan.

9.2 JTC 1/SWG on Directives

The Secretary introduced the following items as the major topics in the SWG-Directives,

- Alignment of JTC 1 Directives with ISO/IEC Directives and preparation of the JTC 1 supplement for the JTC 1 specific procedures.

- Review of Fast-track processing and its BRM.

10. Reports of Ad hoc Groups and Working Groups

10.1 Ad hoc Group 1 - ISO/IEC 29500 Maintenance

Document: N 1055 (Report), N 1069 (Recommendations)

Dr. Alex Brown presented N 1055 as the outcome of the ad hoc 1 meeting held in London, UK in July, 2008. See Resolution 2 and 3.

10.2 Ad hoc Group 2 - ISO/IEC 29500 Comment Collection

Dr. Murata Makoto reported the activity of Ad hoc 2. Mr. Doug MAHUGH presented the web based comment collection form for ISO/IEC 29500. See Resolution 5.

10.3 Working Group 1 - Markup Languages

Document: N 1056 (SoV on NP), N 1097 (Response to N 1056), N 1098 (WG 1 Resolutions)

Dr. Murata presented the WG 1 activities. See Resolution 4,6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13.

10.4 Working Group 2 - Information Presentation

Document: N 1086, N 1092

Dr. Komachi, presented the WG 2 activates. See Resolution 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18.

10.5 Working Group 3 - Information Association

Dr. Durussau presented the WG 3 activities. See Resolution 19, 20 and 21.

11. Proposal for creation of WG 5

The ad hoc meeting on this issue was held the day before this plenary proposed by the SC 34 Chairman. See Resolution 8and 9.

12. Review of Programme of Work and Target Dates

Document: N 1072 rev

The updated target dates were approved. See Resolution 22.

13. Appointment/confirmation of officers

(Conveners, Project editors, Liaison officers)

The Liaison officers were confirmed. See Resolution23. The project editors for 19757-1 and 19757-8 are replaced. See Resolution 24.

14. Review of SC 34 Meeting Calendar

Document: N 1072 rev

The meeting calendar was updated. See Resolution 26.

15. Review of Draft SC 34 Business Plan

Dr. Sam Oh presented the outline of the SC 34 business plan to be submitted to the JTC 1 Nara Plenary meeting in November 2008. See Resolution 1.

16. Approval of Resolutions

All the Resolutions were read upon and approved. The adopted resolutions are contained in N 1099.

17. Any other business

There was no other business.

18. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 15:00 pm.



Attendance list

NB/LO Name
SC 34 Chairman Dr. Sam Gyun OH
Brazil Mr. Fernando GEBARA
Canada Mr. John WEIGELT
China Mr. XueWu WANG
China Prof. NING LI
China Ms. Yan SHI
China Dr. NAN MA
Côte d’Ivoire Mr. Wemba OPOTA
Denmark Ms. Pia Elleby LANGE
>Finland Dr. Juha VARTIAINEN
Finland Mr. Kimmo BERGIUS
Finland Mr. Manu SETÄLÄ
Germany Mr. Mario WENDT
India Mr Rakesh VERMA
India Mr. Vijay KAPUR
India Dr. P. MADHAV
Italy Mr. Andrea VALBONI
Japan Mr. Toshiya SUZUKI
Japan Mr. Hideki HIURA
Japan
WG1 & AHG2 Conv.
Dr. Makoto MURATA
Japan
WG2 Conv
Dr. Yushi KOMACHI
Korea, Rep. of LEE, Jaeho
Korea, Rep. of LIM, Soon Bum
Korea, Rep. of KANG, Young-shik
Korea, Rep. of NAM, Dong Sun
Korea, Rep. of MYAENG, Sung Hyon
Korea, Rep. of JEONG, Eui-suk
Korea, Rep. of LEE, SukWoo
Korea, Rep. of JUNG, Jung-Sub
Norway Ms. Bjornhild SÆTERØY
Norway Mr. Keld SIMONSEN
South Africa Mr Grantham DANIELS
UK
AHG1 Conv.
Dr Alex BROWN
UK Mr Francis CAVE
USA Mr. Dave WELSH
USA
WG3 Conv.
Dr. Patrick DURUSAU

Ecma

Mr. Rex JAESCHKE
Ecma Mr. Jean PAOLI
Ecma Mr. Doug MAHUGH
Ecma Mrs. Isabelle VALET-HARPER
SC 34 SecretaryMs. Toshiko KIMURA