AGENDA: I18N GEO TF telcon, 2003-07-23 at 19:00 UTC, 12noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 20:00 UK, 5am Australia (next day!)

AGENDA
I18N GEO TF teleconference


Please feel free to suggest additional items for the agenda.
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Day     : Wednesday
Date    : 23 July 2003
Start    : 19:00 UTC, 20:00 UK, 12noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 
	  5am Australia (next day!)
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Duration : 60-90 minutes
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*** indicates a topic that will receive particular attention this week




Draft agenda
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Review of agenda

Review of actions (see below)

Review of dependencies (see below)

Meetings:
-	FTF in Georgia 


New members
-	

Info Share
****	 [Here you can contribute news or informative titbits about
events, developments, etc that affect our work.  It is information share
only - if processing is needed we should add an agenda item - although
of course clarification questions are allowed.]


Update on framework activity
-	input made to wcag language section on today's wcag call
	
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-HTMLTECH-20030711.html#language-tech
	RI action to request emphasis on primary language declaration
	RI action to send information about language code values
	RI action to send information about where xml:lang is described


Last chance Q&A Review
****	Lloyd's contribution: aiming for immediate publication
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0036.html



Next week's Q&A Review
****	Tex's contribution
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0015.html


Guidelines review
****	Andrew's proposal for addition to guidelines 2.2
	
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0035.html


Discussion:
****	is there an issue with Mac browsers and utf-8?
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0002.html

****	should we limit ourselves to xhtml served as text/html for the
guidelines?


Questions
-	should we be concerned with distinguishing behaviour for 
	DOCTYPE related 'standards mode', 'almost standards mode' and
'quirks mode'

-	what should we do wrt distinguishing behaviour for 
	XHTML served as text/html or app/xml or app/xhtml+xml?

-	should we assume the use of xml declaration for xhtml 1, or
factor in that many won't use it?
	eg.
http://www.webstandards.org/learn/reference/prolog_problems.html



Guidelines Review
-


Education & Outreach
-	Progress on article by Phil and co.


Content discussion



AOB





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Details:



UPCOMING Q&A ASSIGNMENTS
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		Send to group	Publish
		(latest)
Martin: 		DONE		25 June
Richard:	DONE		2 July
Tex/Phil:	DONE		9 July
Richard:	DONE		16 July [css vs markup for bidi]
Lloyd:		11 Jul		23 July [see his 5 questions]
Tex		21 Jul		31 July [what is bidi & which langs]
Andrew		28 Jul		6 August
Martin		4 aug		13 aug
Richard		11 aug		20 aug [intnl vs mlingl sites]
Tbd		18 aug
Tbd		25 aug
Tbd		1 sept
Russ		8  sept		17 sept

Note:
We are likely to receive something from John Yunker
We are likely to receive something from Yves Savourel





GUIDELINES CONTENT OWNERS
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Steve
	Anything in section 3 (character sets, encoding, entities)
[first priority]
    	Anything in section 10 (Objects)

Martin
	character sets & encodings in forms

Lloyd
	Forms

Richard 
	Bidi

Russ
	automatic layout

Andrew
	i was thinking of jotting down some notes on the following
areas, and 
	then seeing what i could add to other sections.
	3 Character sets, character encodings and entities
	4 Specifying the language of content
	5 Text direction
	6.4 Ruby
	7 Lists
	8 Tables
	     8.1 Mirroring tables in bidirectional text
	15 Writing source text

John
	Navigation




ACTIONS (ongoing and new)
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ACTION: Tex, to ping a couple of external list moderators to see if we
should announce there too.

ACTION: RI, ask Suzanne whether we can announce on her list.

ACTION: AC, write up some text about byte order marks that could be used
to develop section 2.2 
DONE

ACTION: Lloyd, write up some code samples relating to date formats and
link to them from the Q&A page at a later date

ACTION: RI, look into a sponsor for ftf in Atlanta

All: send in pointers to existing guidelines 


DEPENDENCIES
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HTML (SP): Approve para re application/xml+xhtml for bidi CSS vs markup
Q&A
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0028.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0029.html


HTML (SP & MI): help clarify how charset information should be declared
for html and xhtml 1.0 pages 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0033.html



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Richard Ishida
W3C

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Received on Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:19:48 UTC