ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG4 N1938

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TITLE : Activity Report of JTC1/WG4 Japan

SOURCE : Y. Komachi
STATUS : Document for the JTC1/WG4 meeting in Alexandria
REQUESTED ACTION : For Information
DATE : Dec. 1, 1997
DISTRIBUTION : JTC1/WG4

1. Homepage

WG4 Japan established its homepage at http://www.y-adagio.com/public/committees/wg8_jap/cmt_wg8j.htm

which includes the pages of

• Introduction to JTC1/SC18/WG8 Japan
• Japan's Comments on Votes (draft) and
• Japanese Contributions.

2. Discussion and Documents

Members of WG4 Japan met once in a month and discussed several topics of
- SGML TC
- ISO HTML
- Font
- TR 9573-9
to create the following documents:

• Error report on ISO/IEC 9070
• Error report on SPDL
• Comments on WG8 N1926: revised TR 9573-9
• Requirements for standardizing light weight page description specification.

The documents will be distributed in the WG4 meeting, Alexandria.

3. Letter Ballots and Comments

WG8 Japan reviewed voting documents to draft Japan's position to

• ISO/IEC CD 15445, HyperText Markup Language (ISO-HTML)
• Proposal for a new work item on Standard HTML
• Proposed TC2 for WebSGML adaptations for SGML
• ISO/IEC 9541-1/DAM2, Minor enhancements to the architecture to address font technology advances.

They were submitted to SC18 or JTC1 Secretariat.

4. Related Activity

The Japanese translation of DSSSL was reviewed by MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan) and approved just last week to be published as JIS X 4153. In the last September, the Japanese translations of

• ISO/IEC 9070
• TC1 to ISO 8879

were approved to be

• JIS X 4172
• TC1 to JIS X 4151

respectively.