ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34
Document Description and Processing Languages
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N 145 (SC34/WG2 N30)
DATE: 2000-05-24
REPLACES
DOC TYPE:
Other document (Open)
TITLE:
Letter from GLOCOM Regarding the Registration Authority for ISO/IEC
10036
SOURCE:
Y. Yamanouchi, GLOCOM
PROJECT:
STATUS:
For review and discussion under Agenda Item 9.2.1 at the 10-15 June
2000 JTC 1/SC 34 Plenary Meeting in Paris, France.
ACTION ID: ACT
DUE DATE:
DISTRIBUTION: P and L Members
SC Chairman
WG Conveners and Secretariats
MEDIUM: E
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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, American National Standards Institute, 11 West
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ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
Secretariat
Dear Ms. Peacock,
Responding to your e-mail to Yushi Komachi, I will inform you of Glocom's
position on the responsibility for the ISO/IEC 10036.
The importance of font-related identifiers, particularly glyph
identifiers, is increasing independently from the increase in character
code spaces. Basically, ideographs like kanji are much more flexible than
standardized entities such as coded characters.
It is our conviction that anybody who will wish to have unique
identifiers for his own ideographs or other objects should be registrable.
Those objects may also be requried to be interchanged in an open
electronic document environment.
Those requirements, we believe, can be satisfied by the mechanism of
international registration. The ISO/IEC 10036 works well to carry out the
registration of font-related identifiers.
If accepted, Glocom wishes to take responsibility of registration
authority for ISO/IEC 10036.
For your information, I below is a link to the Glocom website.
Best regards,
Yasuhide Yamanouchi Professor,
Center for Global Communications (Glocom)
International University of Japan
Harks Roppongi Bldg. 2F, 6-15-21 Roppongi
Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106-0032
Japan
tel: +81-3-5411-6681
Fax: +81-3-5412-7111