ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 N1867

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8

Document Processing and Relating Communication-

Document Description and Processing Languages

Title:
Meeting Notice and Draft Agenda, Regular Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8, Document Description and Processing Languages, 11--15 November 1996, Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A.
Source:
WG8
Project:
All WG8 projects
Status of Document:
Official meeting notice and draft agenda
Requested action:
For information
Summary of major points:
The Second meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 in 1996 will be held at the University Club of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Note: the U.S. National Body for SC18, X3V1, will be meeting concurrently with WG8 from Wednesday through Friday. ISO experts are welcome as observers in the U.S. Plenary on Wednesday morning. The closing plenary of the X3V1 meeting will be held on Friday afternoon, after the close of the WG8 meeting.

There is no official hotel for this meeting. The University Club is in the Copley Square area of Boston, where there are many hotels, including the Hilton and Sheraton. GCA's SGML '96 conference is being held at the Sheraton the week after the WG8 meeting; if you are attending that, you might want to register for two weeks. For more information on the conference, look at http://www.gca.org/conf/sgml96/index.htm

Those bringing documents to the meeting should bring 20 copies.

Distribution:
WG8 and liaisons

Draft Agenda for November 1996
Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8
Document Description and Processing Languages

Dates:
11--15 November 1996
Location:
University Club of Boston
426 Stuart Street
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 617 266 5600

1. Opening Plenary (0900h-1100h, 11 November, President's Room, University Club of Boston)

A. Opening of meeting

i. Roll call of delegates

ii. Convenor's remarks

B. Presentation of liaison reports

C. Presentation of national activity reports

D. Status reports on current projects

Project JTC1.18.15
Computer Languages for Processing Text
Work Item JTC1.18.15.1
ISO 8879 Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
Project Editor:
Charles F. Goldfarb
Work Item JTC1.18.15.6
Text Composition
JTC1.18.15.6.1:
ISO DIS 10179 Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
Project Editor:
Sharon Adler
JTC1.18.15.6.2:
ISO DIS 10180 Standard Page Description Language
Project Editors:
Steve Zilles and Steve Strasen
Work Item JTC1.18.15.7
SGML Support Facilities-
General Editor:
Charles F. Goldfarb
JTC1.18.15.7.1:
ISO 9069 SGML Document Interchange Format (SDIF)
Project Editor:
Charles F. Goldfarb
JTC1.18.15.7.2:
TR 9573 Techniques for Using SGML
Project Editor:
Anders Berglund
JTC1.18.15.7.3:
ISO 9070 Registration Procedures for Public Text Owner Identifiers
Project Editor:
Charles F. Goldfarb
Project JTC1.18.27
Description and Identification of Glyph Fonts
General Editor:
Alan Griffee
Project JTC1.18.33
Font Services
Project Editor:
Toru Takahashi
Project JTC1.18.36
ISO 13673 Conformance Testing for SGML Systems
Project Editor:
Lynne Price
Project JTC1.18.39.1
DIS 10743 Standard Music Description Language (SMDL)
Project Editor:
Charles Goldfarb
Project JTC1.18.39.2
ISO/IEC 10744 Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime)
Project Editor:
Charles Goldfarb
Project JTC1.18.40
Abstract Definition of SGML for Binary Encoding (SGML-B)
Project Editors:
Charles Goldfarb, David Abrahamson
Project JTC1.18.43
Standard Multimedia/Hypermedia Scripting Language (SMSL)
Project Editor
Brian Markey

E. Assignments to draft responses to liaison statements

2. Division into technical discussions (Monday, University Club of Boston)

Work Item JTC1.18.15.1
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and related projects
Work Item JTC1.18.15.6
Text Composition-
JTC1.18.15.6.1
Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
Work Item JTC1.18.27
Description and Identification of Glyph Fonts

3. Document distribution for closing plenary (1700 h, Thursday)

4. Closing plenary (0830-1200 h,15 November)

A. Review of recommendations and documents for circulation to SC18 and liaisons

B. Review of priorities and schedules

C. Assignment of liaisons and editors

D. Review of meeting and assignment of work for next meeting

E. Place and date of next meeting

NOTE: Convenors of RGs should have documents which will be needed for the closing plenary ready for duplication at noon on Thursday and should be ready to indicate to the full working group at that time what items will be presented for decision (recommendations, liaison statements).

Convenor: Dr. James D. Mason
SGML Systems Development, Information Management Services
Lockheed Martin Energy Systems
1060 Commerce Park, M.S. 6480
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6480 U.S.A.
Telephone, +1 423 574 6973; Fax, +1 423 574 0004; E-mail, masonjd@ornl.gov