ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0273

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34

Information Technology --

Document Description and Processing Languages

Title:	Secretariats Report
Source:	Sara Hafele
Project:
Project editors:
Status:
Action:	For information and review.
Date:	03 December 2001
Summary:
Distribution:	SC34 and Liaisons
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Supercedes:
Reply to:	Dr. James David Mason (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Chairman) Y-12 National Security Complex Information Technology Services Bldg. 9113 M.S. 8208 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A. Telephone: +1 865 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 865 574-1896 E-mailk: mailto:[email protected] http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/sc34oldhome.htm Ms. Sara Hafele, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat American National Standards Institute 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Tel: +1 212 642-4937 Fax: +1 212 840-2298 E-mail: [email protected]

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34- Document Description and Processing Languages – Secretariats Report

Chairman – Dr. James D. Mason

Secretariat – Ms. Sara Hafele

1) SC 34 Membership

‘P’ Member Bodies (13)

Brazil	Japan
Canada	Korea, Republic of
China	The Netherlands
Denmark	Norway
France	USA
Ireland	United Kingdom
Italy

‘O’ Member Bodies (4)

Australia	Germany
Czech Republic	Sweden

2) Liaisons

Liaison	Title	Category
ISO/TC 46	Information and Documentation	Internal
ISO/TC 184 SC 4	Industrial Data and Global Manufacturing Languages	Internal
JTC 1 SC 32	Data Management and Interchange	Internal
SGML UG	Standard Generalized Markup Language Users Group	A
W3C	World Wide Web Consortia	C
OASIS (pending JTC 1 approval)	Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards	A

3) Working Groups

WG 1 – Markup Languages

Convenor – Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb

SC 34/WG 1 is responsible for information description languages, principally the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and auxiliary standards relating to SGML subsets, APIs, testing and registration.

1. SGML (ISO 8879)

2. SDIF (ISO 9069)

3. Registration Procedures for SGML Public Identifiers (ISO 9070)

4. Technical Reports 9573

5. Conformance Testing for SGML Systems (DIS 13673)

6. APIs for document processing

WG 2 – Information Presentation

Convenor – Dr. Yushi Komachi

SC 32/WG 2 is responsible for producing standards for languages and resources for the description and processing of compounds and hypermedia documents, including:

1. Document processing architecture and formatting for logical documents

2. Multilingual font information interchange and related services

3. Final-form document architecture and page information interchange

4. APIs for the above document processing

WG 3 – Information Association

Convenor – Mr. Steve Pepper

SC 34/WG 3 is responsible for producing standard architectures for information management and interchange based on ISO 8879, Standard Generalized Markup Language and related standards, including, but not limited to:

1. Information linking and addressing

2. Time-based information management

3. Representation of knowledge structures, indexes, etc.

4. Management of behavioral components in interactive documents

4) SC 34 DOCUMENT REGISTER

(documents posted since the last Secretariats Report)

N number	Document Name	Originator	Date
N 206	Draft Agenda for June 2001 Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG2	WG2 N65	2001-05-07
N 207	SC 34 Summary of Voting - N 184 - Proposed NP for Conceptual Model for Topic Maps	SC34	2001-05-07
N 208	SC 34 Summary of Voting N 183 - Proposed NP for Topic Map Query Language (TMQL)	SC34	2001-05-07
N 209	SC 34 Summary of Voting N 185 - Preliminary Working Draft for Topic Map Conceptual Model	SC34	2001-05-07
N 210	SC 34 Summary of Voting on N 186 - CD Ballot for Topic Maps Query Language	SC34	2001-05-07
N 211	Summary of Voting on SC 34 N 187 - Proposed Technical Corrigendum 1 to ISO/IEC 10180:1995 - Standard Page Description Language (SPDL)	SC34	2001-05-07
N 212	Summary of Voting - ISO/IEC DIS 22250-1 - Information Technology - Text and office systems - Regular Language Description for XML (RELAX) - Part 1: RELAX Core	SC34	2001-05-19
N 213	Resolutions of the May 2001 Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34	SC34	2001-05-23
N 214	Disposition of comments on SC34 N0187: Proposed Technical Corrigendum 1 to ISO/IEC 10180:1995, SPDL	WG2 N72	2001-05-23
N 215	Technical Corrigendum 1 to ISO/IEC 10180:1995, SPDL	WG2 N73	2001-05-23
N 216	PDAM1 to ISO/IEC 10179: Extensions to DSSSL	WG2 N74	2001-05-23
N 217	Recommendations of May 2001 Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG2 in Berlin	WG2 N75	2001-05-23
N 218	Requirements for TC2 to ISO/IEC 10036:1996	WG2 N76	2001-05-24
N 219	Program of work, WG2	WG2 N77	2001-05-24
N 220	Defect Report on Topic Maps (ISO/IEC 13250:2000)	WG3	2001-05-24
N 221	Proposed NP for Topic Map Constraint Language	WG3	2001-05-24
N 222	Recommendations of the WG3 meeting	WG3	2001-05-24
N 223	Proposed NP for Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL)	WG1	2001-05-24
N 224	Report on Revision of ISO/IEC TR9573-11	Y. Komachi	2001-05-24
N 225	Report of WG1	WG1	2001-05-24
N 226	Draft Requirements for TMCL	S. Pepper	2001-06-08
N 227	Draft Requirements for TMQL	L. Garshol	2001-06-08
N 228	Trip report of SC34 Chairman	J. Mason	2001-06-11
N 229	A Topic Map Data Model, An infoset-based proposal	L. Garshol	2001-06-18
N 230	Requests to JTC 1 Subcommittees Related to Marketing Initiatives	JTC 1 N6452	2001-06-22
N 231	National Body Report of Japan	WG2 N69	2001-05-19
N 232	Report of SC34/WG2	WG2 N70	2001-05-19
N 233	Report of ISO/IEC 10036 Registration	WG2 N71	2001-05-19
N 234	Draft Agenda for SC34/WG3, Montréal	WG3	2001-07-02
N 235	Discussion Paper on ISO/IEC 13250:2000 Topic Maps - Defect Report	M. Biezunski and S. Newcomb	2001-07-25
N 236	Proposed Technical Corrigendum 1 to ISO/IEC 15445:2000 – HTML	D. Abrahamson and R. Price	2001-08-07
N 237	ISO TMB Resolution on the Registration Authority of ISO/IEC 10036	ISO	2001-08-07
N 238	Japan National Body Defect Report ISO/IEC 13250:2000 Topic Maps	SC34 Japan	2001-08-07
N 239	Response to Defect Report on ISO/IEC 13250:2000	M. Biezunski	2001-08-11
N 240	Recommendations of WG3 Meeting, Montréal	S. Pepper	2001-08-11
N 241	Topic Map foundational model requirements	L. M. Garshol	2001-08-11
N 242	A Topic Map Data Model: An infoset-based proposal	L. M. Garshol	2001-08-11
N 243	Topicmaps.net's Processing Model for XTM 1.0, version 1.0.1	M. Biezunski and S. Newcomb	2001-08-11
N 244	Illustration of a proposed Core Model	M. Biezunski and S. Newcomb	2001-08-11
N 245	Trip report of SC34 Chairman	J. Mason	2001-09-13
N 246	Disposition of Comments on ISO/IEC DTR 22250-1 – RELAX - Part 1: RELAX Core	Ballot Resolution Meeting	2001-08-23
N 247	Copyright Protection on ISO International Standards and DIS	ITTF	2001-08-23
N 248	ISO TMB Communique - August 2001	ISO CS	2001-08-29
N 249	TMQL requirements (1.0.0)	H.Holger Rath and L.Marius Garshol	2001-08-29
N 250	SC34 Document Register 201–250	SC34 Secretariat	2001-08-29
N 251	National Body Comments Received on SC 34 N 227 – Working Draft 1 on TMQL Requirements	SC34 Secretariat	2001-9-06
N 252	National Body Comments Received on SC 34 N 229 – Topic Map Data Model – An Infoset-Based Proposal	SC34 Secretariat	2001-9-06
N 253	SC 34 Business Plan	J. Mason	2001-9-24
N 254	Editors Response to SC 34 N 251 – National Body Comments Received on SC 34 N 227 – Working Draft 1 on TMQL Requirements	TMQL Editors	2001-9-13
N 255	UK National Body Comments to SC 34 N 229 - Topic Map Data Model - An Infoset-Based Proposal	BSI	2001-9-18
N 256	Summary of Voting on SC 34 N 221 - Topic Map Constraint Language to support ISO/IEC 13250	SC 34 Secretariat	2001-10-05
N 257	Summary of voting on SC 34 N 223 - New Work Item - Proposed Document Schema Definition Language	SC 34 Secretariat	2001-10-05
N 258	Summary of Voting on SC 34 N 216 - PDAM1 to ISO/IEC 10179: Extensions to DSSSL	SC 34 Secretariat	2001-10-05
N 259	Summary of Voting on SC 34 N 226 - CD Ballot for Topic Map Constraint Language	SC 34 Secretariat	2001-10-05
N 260	Summary of Voting on SC 34 N 220 - Draft Technical Corrigendum Ballot on ISO/IEC 13250:2000 - Topic Maps	SC 34 Secretariat	2001-10-05
N 261	Proposers Response to SC 34 N 252 - National Body Comments Received on SC 34 N 229 – Topic Map Data Model – An Infoset-Based Proposal	L.M. Garshol	2001-10-12
N 262	Meeting Announcement / Draft Agenda for the JTC 1/SC 34 Meeting, 8-13 December 2001, Orlando, FL, USA	SC 34 Secretariat	2001-10-19
N 263	Summary of Voting on FDIS 13240 - Information technology - Document description and processing languages - Interchange Standard for Multimedia Interactive Documents (ISMID)	SC 34 Secretariat	2001-10-19
N 264	U.K. Contribution to First Working Draft Document for Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL)	U.K. National Body	2001-10-19
N 265	Request for JTC 1 Approval of Category A Liaison Between the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and JTC 1/SC 34	OASIS	2001-10-24
N 266	Topic map foundational model requirements	G. Moore, L.M. Garshol	2001-10-31
N 267	The Ontopia Schema Language: Specification	L.M. Garshol	2001-11-27
N 268	The Ontopia Schema Language - Tutorial	L.M. Garshol	2001-11-27
N 269	Proposed Topic Maps Core Model Requirements	M.Biezunski, S.Newcomb	2001-11-30
N 270	Response to SC 34 National Body Comments on N220 (N260)	M.Biezunski, S.Newcomb	2001-11-30
N 271	Comments on N266 Proposed Requirements for Level 1 Model	M.Biezunski, S.Newcomb	2001-11-30
N 272	Draft Agenda for Dec. 2001 Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG2	Y. Komachi	2001-11-30
N 273	Secretariats Report	SC 34 Secretariat	2001-12-06
N 274	Draft Agenda for Dec. 2001 Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3	S. Pepper	2001-12-06

5) SC 34 ROSTER

Dr. David Abrahamson Trinity College Computer Science Department Dublin 2, Ireland TELEPHONE:+ 353 1 702 1716 FAX: + 353 1 677 2204 E-MAIL: [email protected]	Ms. Sharon Adler Inso Corp. One Richmond Square Providence, RI 02906 USA TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 421 9550 FAX: + 1 401 421 9551 E-MAIL: [email protected]
Ms. Barbara Beeton American Mathematical Society 201 Charles Street Providence, RI 02940 USA TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 455 4014 FAX: + 1 401 331 3842 E-MAIL: [email protected]	Dr. Anders Berglund Berglund Consulting & Type Foundry 335 Shippee Road East Greenwich, RI 02818 USA TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 885 0471 FAX: + 1 401 885 0471 E-MAIL: [email protected]
Mr. Martin Bryan The SGML Centre 29, Oldbury Orchard Churchdown, Gloucester GL3 2PU United Kingdom TELEPHONE:+44 1452 714 029 FAX: +44 1452 714 029 E-MAIL: [email protected]	Mr. Norm Chenard VicomMultimedia 2611 129 Ave. Edmonton, Alberta T5A 3X7 Canada TELEPHONE:+1 403 452 4082 FAX: +1 403 452 4082 E-MAIL: [email protected]
Mr. Mike Cowlishaw IBM UK Laboratories, Ltd. Mail Point 161, Hursley Park Winchester, Hampshire SO21 SJN United Kingdom TELEPHONE:+ 44 962 844 433 FAX: + 44 1 962 842 327 E-MAIL: [email protected]	Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb Information Management Consulting 13075 Paramount Court Saratoga, CA 95070 USA TELEPHONE:+ 1 408 867 5553 FAX: + 1 408 867 5794 E-MAIL: [email protected]
Ms. Sara Hafele American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 USA TELEPHONE: +1 212 642 4937 FAX: +1 212 840 2298 E-MAIL: [email protected]	Mr. Eliot Kimber [email protected] TELEPHONE: FAX: E-MAIL: eliot@isogen.
Dr. Yushi Komachi Panasoni/MGCS 2-3-8 Shimomeguro Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8687 Japan TELEPHONE:+ 81 3 5434 7053 FAX: + 81 3 5434 7158 E-MAIL: [email protected]	Dr. James Mason Y-12 National Security Complex Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208 P.O. Box 2009 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 USA TELEPHONE: + 1 865 574 6973 FAX: + 1 865 574 3868 E-MAIL: [email protected]
Mr. Terry O'Donnell Adobe Systems, Inc. 1585 Charleston Road Mountain View, CA 94039-7900 USA TELEPHONE:+ 1 415 962 3836 FAX: + 1 415 961 3769 E-MAIL: [email protected]	Mr. Akinori Okubo Ricoh Corp. TELEPHONE: FAX: E-MAIL: [email protected]
Mr. Steve Pepper STEP Infotek A.S. Gjerdrum's vei 12 Oslo, N-0486 Norway TELEPHONE:+47 2202 1680 FAX: +47 2202 1681 E-MAIL: [email protected]	Dr. Lynne Price Text Structure Consulting, Inc. 17225 San Franciscan Drive Castro Valley, CA 94552 USA TELEPHONE:+1 510 583 1505 FAX: +1 510 583 1505 E-MAIL: [email protected]
Dr. Hans Holger Rath STEP Sturz Electronic Publishing GmbH Technologiepark Wurzburg-Rimpar Pavillion 7, D-97222 Rimpar Germany TELEPHONE:+49 936 58 062 63 FAX: +49 936 58 062 66 E-MAIL: [email protected]	Dr. Richard Strehlow Termco, Inc. 5120 Kingston Pike Knoxville, TN 37919 USA TELEPHONE:+1 615 584 8739 FAX: E-MAIL: [email protected]

6) SC 34 Status Log

ISO Reference Number	W G	Pub.	Status	P*	Title/Subject	Comments	Due Date	Project Editor/ Expert
8879: 1986	1	1986	90.93		Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)			Charles Goldfarb
8879: 1986 / Amd 1	1	1986	60.60		Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)			Charles Goldfarb
9069: 1988	1	1988	90.93		SGML support facilities - Document Interchange Format (SDIF)			Charles Goldfarb
8879: 1986 / Cor 1: 1996	1	1996	60.60		Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) - Corrigendum 1			Charles Goldfarb
8879: 1986 / Cor 2: 1999	1	1999	60.60		Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) - Corrigendum 2			Charles Goldfarb
9070: 1991	1	1991	90.93		SGML support facilities - Registration procedures for public text owner identifiers			Charles Goldfarb
9541- 1: 1991	2	1991	90.93		Font information interchange - Part 1: Architecture
9541- 1: 1991/ Cor 1: 1992	2	1991	60.60		Font information interchange - Part 1: Architecture -- Technical Corrigendum 1			Yushi Komachi
9541- 1: 1991/ Cor 2: 1994	2	1991	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Technical Corrigendum 2			Yushi Komachi
9541- 1: 1991/ Cor 3: 1995	2	1991	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Technical Corrigendum 3			Yushi Komachi
9541- 1: 1991/ Amd 1	2	1991	60.60		Font information interchange - Part 1: Architecture -- Amendment 1: Typeface design grouping			Yushi Komachi
9541- 1: 1991/ Amd 2: 1998	2	1991	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Amendment 2: Minor enhancements to the architecture to address font technology advances			Yushi Komachi
9541- 1: 1991/ Amd 3: 2000	2	2000	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Amendment 3: Multilingual extensions to font resource architecture			Yushi Komachi
9541- 2: 1991	2	1991	90.93		Font information interchange - Part 2: Interchange Format			Yushi Komachi
9541- 2: 1991/ Cor 1: 1993	2	1991	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 2: Interchange Format -- Technical Corrigendum 1			Yushi Komachi
9541- 2: 1991/ Cor 2: 1995	2	1991	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 2: Interchange Format -- Technical Corrigendum 2			Yushi Komachi
9541- 2: 1991/ Amd 1: 2000	2	2000	60.60		Font information interchange -- Part 2: Interchange Format -- Amendment 1: font technology advances			Yushi Komachi
9541- 3: 1994	2	1994	90.60		Font information interchange -- Part 3: Glyph shape representation			Terry O’Donnell
9541- 3: 1994/ PWI Amd 1	2	1994	00.00		Font information interchange -- Part 3: Glyph shape representation -- Amendment 1			Yushi Komachi and Juergen Willrodt
TR 9544: 1988 (type 2)	1	1988	60.60		Computer- assisted publishing - Vocabulary			R. Strehlow
TR 9573: 1988 (type 3)	1	1988	60.60		SGML support facilities -- Techniques for using SGML
TR 9573- 11: 1992 (type 3)	1	1992	60.60		SGML support facilities -- Techniques for using SGML -- Part 11: Application at ISO SGML -- Central Secretariat for International Standards and Application Technical reports			Anders Berglund
TR 9573- 13: 1991 (type 3)	1	1991	60.60		SGML support facilities -- Techniques for using SGML -- Part 13: Public entity sets pour SGML -- for mathematics and science			Anders Berglund
10036: 1996	2	1996	60.60		Font information interchange -- Procedures for registration of font- related identifiers			Yushi Komachi
10036: 1996/ Cor 1	2	2001	60.60		Font information interchange -- Procedures for registration of font- related identifiers-- Technical Corrigendum 1			Yushi Komachi
TR 10037: 1991 (type 1)	1		60.60		SGML and Text- entry Systems -- Guidelines for SGML Syntax- Directed Editing Systems			Mike Colishaw
10179: 1996	2	1996	60.60		Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL)			Shigeru Kaida
10179: 1996/ CD Cor 1	2	2001	60.60		Document Style Semantics and Specification Language -- (DSSSL) -- Technical Corrigendum 1			Shigeru Kaida
10179: 1996/ WD Amd 1	2	1996	20.20	*	Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) -- Amendment 1: Extensions to DSSSL	PDAM approved (N 258).		Shigeru Kaida
10180: 1995	2	1995	90.60		Standard Page Description Language (SPDL)	Technical corrigendum proposed (N187) to SC 34 NB’s	2001-04-18	Akinori Okubo
10180: COR 1	2	2001	60.60		Standard Page Description Language (SPDL)	Published 2001-10-15
DIS 10743	3		40.60	*	Standard Music Description Language (SMDL)	Pending cancellation from ISO if no progression. Rec'd notice 2001/07		Steve Newcomb and Eliot Kimber
10744: 1997	3	1997	60.60		Hypermedia/ Time- based Structuring Language (HyTime)			Charles Goldfarb
10744: 1997/ CD Amd 1	3		30.60	*	Hypermedia/ Time- based Structuring Language (HyTime) -- Amendment 1	Pending cancellation from ISO if no progression. Rec'd notice 2001/07		Charles Goldfarb
FCD 13240	3		50.99	*	Information technology -- Interchange Standard for Multimedia Interactive Documents (ISMID)	FDIS approved N 263. Waiting on publication.		Norm Chenard
13250: 2000	3	2000	60.60		SGML Applications -- Topic Maps			Martin Bryan
13250: Cor 1	3		30.92	*	Draft Technical Corrigendum Ballot on ISO/IEC 13250:2000 - Topic Maps	Many comments received in summary of voting N260. Project leader requested to address all comments received when drafting revised text.		WG3
13673: 2000	1	2000	60.60		Conformance testing for Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) systems			Lynn Price
TR 15413 (type 1)	2	2001	60.60		Font Services -- Abstract Services Definition			Yushi Komachi
15445: 2000	3		60.00		HyperText Markup Language (HTML)			David Abrahamson
CD 18048	3		30.20	*	SGML Applications -- Topic Map Query Language (TMQL)	NP (N183) and PDTR (N186) were approved. Comments received (N210) were forwarded on to the project leader to take into consideration when drafting the DTR.		Ann Wrightson
CD TR 18049	3		40.00	*	SGML Applications -- Topic Map Conceptual Model	NP (N184) and PDTR (N185) were approved. Comments received (N209) were forwarded on to the project leader to take into consideration when drafting the DTR.		D. Rivers-Moore
CD 19756	3				Topic Map Constraint Language	NP approved N 256.		WG 3
CD 19757	1				Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL)	NP approved N 257.		WG 1
TR 22250- 1	2		60.00	*	Text and office systems -- Regular Language Description for XML (RELAX) -- Part 1: RELAX Core	Document to be published, pending editorial issues within ISO.		Makoto Murata
TR 22250- 2 (fast track)	2		00.20		Regular Language Description for XML (RELAX)- Part 2: RELAX Namespace	30 day JTC 1 review period ends 2001-12-13. If no objections, then 5 month ballot will be initiated within JTC1 to fast track document.		Makoto Murata