SC22/WG15 N655
Japan Action Item Report


9510-06   Member    Bodies    -    submit    issues    on
	  synchronization in  writing or to the reflector
	  by April 8, 1996.  No additional issues will be
	  considered  under  the  synchronization  agenda
	  item at the May, 1996 meeting.

    Japan has no issues with the synchronization plan.

9510-08   Member  Bodies   -  provide	URLs  and   other
	  information they  would like posted to the WG15
	  web page.

    Japan member body does not have any URLs to be referenced
    by WG15 Web pages now. The preparation work is under way.

9510-10   Member Bodies  - review  the full N595 document
	  and the  liaison report N607 and submit written
	  contributions to  be	used  to  form	the  WG15
	  response to  SC22 for  a common  plan  of  work
	  within CEN/TC304.

    L/11113b Message interface with localisers.

	  XPG4 has message interfaces. If the X/Open Single UNIX
	  Specification will be incorporated into POSIX, they
	  should be part of them. Japan does not desire to
	  create new message interfaces.

    L/1312 Update POSIX to cover more cultural conventions.

	  Japan thinks that WG15 can handle this item as a normal
	  comment/proposal to the draft standards. Without any
	  specific requirements or defects, Japan finds no reason
	  to work on the item within WG15. WG20 will be more
	  appropriate place to work on this item in general.

    L/132 Formal specification techniques for cultural data.

	  Japan thinks that WG15 can review the output produced by
	  WG20.

    L/2111b  Guidelines on national specification of cultural conventions.

	  The scope of the work in WG15 and the role of WG15RIN
	  should be discussed in the early phase of the development.
	  It is not known that CEN proposal is appropriate to be
	  covered within the WG15 work item at this moment.

    L/212 International cultural registry

	  It is not clear how the cultural registry will be referenced
	  by the POSIX standards. Japan thinks that the guideline
	  work should be completed first.

    L/31 Update POSIX to include locale default rules

	  Japan does not have a problem in the current specification
	  which is to fallback to C locale.

    L/3131 Guide on conversion between UCS coding forms.

	  It seems WG15 has no relation to this work item
	  because POSIX is codeset independent.

    L/332 Support for locale registry in POSIX operating system

	  Japan thinks that the work for "Guidelines for POSIX
	  national profile and national locales" should be
	  completed first. Because the relation between POSIX
	  national profile and POSIX locale is not clear at this moment.

9510-11   Member Bodies - review N596 and provide written
	  comments  or	 extensions  for  the  May,  1996
	  meeting.

    No comments.

9510-12   Member Bodies  and X/Open Liaison - review N622
	  in   the    context	of   providing	 an   ISO
	  specification in alignment with the Single Unix
	  Specification and come to the May, 1996 meeting
	  with a  preferred tactical  method  to  achieve
	  this (if appropriate).

    N622 failed to refer to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 Amendment 1.
    The standard is important for internationalization and
    most of them are incorporated into the Single Unix
    Specification already.
    Since the Amendment is an ISO standard, Japan believes
    that POSIX standards (.1 and .2) should be aligned
    at least with the Amendment.
    As for overall alignment with the Single Unix Specification,
    Japan has no idea about the tactical method.

9510-33   Member Bodies  - identify appropriate users (of
	  profiles) and  seek feedback	from them  in the
	  R&C process on how the profiles meet (or do not
	  meet) their needs.  (from RGCPA issue #2)

    No input from Japan.

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