From donn@hpfcrn.fc.hp.com Thu Dec 27 20:07:32 1990 Received: from HPFCLA.FC.HP.COM by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA01994; Thu, 27 Dec 90 20:07:32 +0100 Received: from hpfcrn.fc.hp.com by hpfcla.fc.hp.com with SMTP (15.11.1.3/15.5+IOS 3.20) id AA22432; Thu, 27 Dec 90 12:03:36 mst Received: from hpfcrn by hpfcrn.HP.COM; Thu, 27 Dec 90 12:07:52 mst Message-Id: <9012271907.AA21027@hpfcrn.HP.COM> To: wg15rin@dkuug.dk Subject: Letter Date: Thu, 27 Dec 90 12:07:49 MST From: Donn Terry X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Here's what I hope is the last shot at it. I've really only added addresses since last time. Keld, do you want to actually post it, or shall I? I don't mind, but since it's nominally from you, I'll give you the chance. One of us will mail it early next week/year if there are no objections. Donn --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Parties interested in Internationalization, including: CECUA CEN COS ECMA EUREKA ESPIRIT EWOS EurOpen Standards Steering Committee IEEE P1003.0 task group on Internationalization ISO SC2/WG2 (10646) OSF SIG on Internationalization PortSoft Proposed SC22 Working Group on Internationalization SC22 Ad-Hoc on Character sets. SPAG UI SIG on Internationalization UniForum Technical Committee on Internationalization Unicode working group. User Alliance for Open Systems X Consortium X/Open Working Group on Internationalization From: ISO IEC JTC-1 SC22/WG15 Rapporteur Group on Internationalization (RIN) (c/o Keld Simonsen) cc: (For Information) CEC/CTS CEC/PPG EPHOS EUROMETHOD Subj: Coordination of activities. For some time it has been obvious that there are a number of groups participating in internationalization activities. (For those not familiar with the term, "internationalization" refers to computer software interfaces designed so that the same program can successfully operate using different natural languages and cultural conventions.) ISO/IEC JTC-1 SC22/WG15 has established a formal Rapporteur Group on Internationalization (RIN). WG15 is the group charged with the international standardization of the POSIX system interface standards. This letter is being sent to the members of all the groups RIN currently knows of who may be working in the area. Often it is being sent in care of a specific indivdual who may not be the correct contact person, but who we believe will be able to forward it to the correct person. Would each recipient of this letter be kind enough to: * Forward a copy of this letter to the proper contact person or group. * Forward to RIN the name of the appropriate contact person for further communication. Contact Keld Simonsen Danish UNIX User Group (DKUUG) Studiestraede 6 DK-1455 Copenhagen K Denmark keld@dkuug.dk * Identify any additional groups not mentioned above who are also working in the area and: + Inform RIN of the existence of the group + Forward a copy of this letter to that group for their consideration. It has been claimed that the number of groups working in the area reaches into the twenties. Thus, simply a catalog of all the interested parties would be useful. Interested individuals who would not achieve coordination through a group are also encouraged to identify themselves to RIN. This information will be used to seed coordination activities so that the work of internationalization can progress as rapidly as possible with minimum duplication of effort. An open mailing list on the topic of internationalization has been established at i18n@dkuug.dk. Interested parties may request membership from Keld Simonsen (i18n-request@dkuug.dk). Some existing private mailing lists are already automatically gatewayed from this list. Addresses: CEC/CTS The Conformance Test Service - CTS - Programme Commission of the European Communities DG XIII/E4 - Telecommunications, Information Industries and Innovation BREYDEL 6 45, Avenue d'Auderghem B-1040 Brussels Belgium Att.: Mr. M. Carbajo Monje CEC/PPG The Public Procurement Group - PPG Commission of the European Communities DG XIII/E4 - Telecommunications, Information Industries and Innovation BREYDEL 6 45, Avenue d'Auderghem B-1040 Brussels Belgium Att.: Mr. Ken Thompson CEC/DG IX Commission of the European Communities DG IX Jean Monnet Building Plateau du Kirchberg L-2920 Luxembourg Luxembourg Att.: Mr. Michel Colin CECUA CECUA - Confederation of European Computer User Association Central Office 304, Avenue Louise Boit 5-8 B-1050 Brussels Belgium Att.: Mr. S. de Jong CECUA - Confederation of European Computer User Assotiation Secretariat Bureau BSG Postbus 432 Brediusweg 33 NL-1400 AK Bussum The Netherlands Att.: Mr. S. de Jong COS 1750 Old Meadow Road, Suite 400 McLean, VA 22102 U.S.A. Att.: Eric L Bolton, Public Affairs Director CEPIS c/o Mr. Aage Melbye Dansk Dataforening Kronprinsensgade 14 DK-1114 Copenhagen K Denmark CEN CEN - European Committee for Standardization 2, Rue Brederode, Boite 5 B B-1000 Brussels Belgium Att.: Manager, IT Group - Mr. Jan van Herp CEN - European Committee for Standardization Central Secretariat 2, Rue Brederode, Boite 5 B B-1000 Brussels Belgium Att.: Mr. Quyen Tran ECMA c/o D. Hekimi 114 Rue du Rhone 1204 Geneva Switzerland. EPHOS EPHOS - European Procurement Handbook for Open Systems Project Office Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) Riverwalk House 157-161 Millbank London SW1P 4RT United Kingdom Att.: Mr. Jeff Thomas ESPRIT - European Strategic Programme for R & D in IT Commission of the European Communities DG XIII/A4 BREYDEL 9/191 45, Avenue d'Auderghem B-1040 Brussels Belgium Att.: Project Officer - Mr. J. J. Lauture EUREKA Project Office 19 H, Avenue des Arts B-1040 Brussels Belgium EUROMETHOD EUROMETHOD Project Office SEMA Group S.A. 16, rue Barbes F-92120 Montrouge Cedex France Att.: Mr. M. Franckson EurOpen Standards Steering Committee c/o Dominic Dunlop 9 The Forty, Cholsey, OXON OX10 9LH U.K. domo@tsa.co.uk EWOS EWOS - European Workshop for Open Systems 36, Rue de Stassart B-1050 Brussels Belgium Att.: Director - Mr. Jack Rega EWOS - European Workshop for Open Systems Expert Group on Common Application Environment (EG/CAE) 36, Rue de Stassart B-1050 Brussels Belgium Att.: Mr. Luigi Bertuzzi IEEE P1003.0 task group on Internationalization c/o John Hill MS 2GH PO Box 500 Blue Bell, PA 10424-0001 USA hill@prc.unisys.com ISO SC2/WG2 (10646) c/o Mike Ksar 3155 Porter Drive Building 28AH Palo Alto, Ca. 94304 USA mike_ksar@hp0080.hp.com NIST - User' Forum on Applications Portability Profile (APP) and Open Systems Environment (OSE) c/o Roger Martin National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Maryland, USA rmartin@swe.ncsl.nist.gov OSF SIG on Internationalization c/o Pete Smith (DEC) Pete Smith Digital ZK03-3/W20 110 Spitbrook Rd Nashua, NH 03062 psmith@decvax.dec.com PortSoft c/o Jin Ho Hur Human Computers Inc. Sanyoung Bldg. 840 Yoksam-dong Kangnam-ku Seoul 134-080 Republic of Korea. jhhur@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr Proposed SC22 Working Group on Internationalization c/o Dick Weaver IBM COr. D48/D332 P.O. Box 49023 San Jose, Ca 95161-9023 fortran@ibm.com SPAG SPAG - Standards Promotion and Application Group 149, Avenue Louise Boite 7 B-1050 Brussels Belgium UI SIG on Internationalization c/o Shane McCarron UNIX International 20 Waterview Blvd. Parsippany, NJ 07054 USA ahby@uiunix.ui.com Unicode Working Group c/o Joe Becker XEROX Corporation 475 Oakmead Parkway Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA joseph_d._becker.osbu_north@xerox.com UniForum Technical Committee on Internationalization c/o Ralph Barker 2901 Tasman Drive Suite 201 Santa Clara, Ca. 95054 USA usrgrp!ralph@uunet.uu.net User Alliance for Open Systems Bud Huber, Chair Hughes Aircraft Bldg. C07/2061 1515 Hughes Way PO Box 9399 Long Beach, CA 90810-0465 X Consortium c/o Bob Scheifler Bob Scheifler Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu X/Open Working Group on Internationalization c/o Motoo Chiya Fujitsu Limited Shinyokohama Tech. Building 3-9-18 Shinyokohama Kohoku-ku Yokohama 222 Japan