
                                                            VERSION 1.8
 LIST OF GROUPS WORKING ON CHARACTER SETS AND CODING         1995-01-31
                                                        J. W. van Wingen

 The following contains a list of groups that are working on character
 sets or subjects in their field that are related to character issues.

 STANDARDS DEVELOPING BODIES

 International:
     ISO/IEC JTC1 Information Technology
               SC2  Coded Character sets
                    Chairman: S. G. Lindberg, IBM, Sweden
                    Secretary: J. van den Beld, ECMA, Geneva CH
               SC2/WG2 Multiple octet coded character sets
                    Convener: M. Ksar, Hewlett-Packard, USA
                    Project editor: M. Davis, Taligent, USA
               SC2/WG3 7-bit and 8-bit coded character sets,
                       Code extension techniques,
                       Control functions
                    Convener: J. van den Beld, ECMA, Geneva CH
     ISO TC46     Information and Documentation
               SC4  Computer applications
               SC4/WG1 Character sets
                    Convener: R. K. Barry
     ITU-T        International Telecommunications Union (former CCITT)
               Study group 8
                    Contact: S. Fuchs, Bezeq, Israel
     CEN          The Joint European Standards Institute
               TC 304 Character Set Technology
                    Secretary: Thorvardur Olafsson, SPRI, Iceland
     ECMA         European Computer Manufacturers Association
               TC1  Codes
                    Contact: J. van den Beld, ECMA, Geneva CH
     EWOS         European Workshop on Open Systems
               Study group Character Codes
                    Contact: C. Makemson, UK

 National Bodies (with developments of their own):
     China: CAS     Contact: Li Yunqin, CAS
     Japan: JISC    Contact: T. Katoh, Toppan Printing
     Korea: KBS     Contact: Kyongsok Kim, Pusan Univ.
     India: BIS     Contact: N. Subramanian, CDAC
     Thailand ..    Contact: Trin Transetthi
     UK:    BSI     Contact: J. B. Paterson
     USA:   ANSI  American National Standards Institute
               X3L2 Contact: E. Hart, JHU, USA
     USSR:  GOST    Contact: ?

 Manufacturers:
     IBM:           Contact: S. G. Lindberg, Sweden
                             P. W. Ford, NLTC, Toronto, Canada
     DEC:           Contact: J. Bettels, CH
     Unisys:        Contact: G. Bernard, France
     H-P:           Contact: M. Ksar, USA
     Xerox:         Contact: J. Becker, USA
     Apple:         Contact: ?????
     Taligent:      Contact: M. Davis, USA
     Microsoft:     Contact: M. Suignard, france
     Siemens:       Contact: I. Sebestyen, BRD
     Bull:          Contact: ?????
     ICL:           Contact: ?????

&USER GROUPS

     IBM:
         GUIDE (US):Contact: ?
         SHARE (US):
               Software Globalization Committee, formerly
               ASCII/EBCDIC and International Language Support Committee
                    Contact: E. Hart, USA
         GUIDE/SHARE Europe:
               National Language Committee
                    Contact: J-P Cabani/e, France
     DEC:
         DECUS:     Contact: ?

 RELATED ACTIVITIES

 Standards:
     ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18 Document Processing and related communication
               SC18/WG8 Text Description and Processing Languages
                    Convener: J. D. Mason, Oak Ridge USA
                    SWG Fonts
                    Convener: A. Griffee, IBM, USA
                    SWG SGML
                    Convener: C. J. Goldfarb, USA
                    SWG SPDL
                    Convener: S. Strasen, Xerox, USA
               SC18/WG9 User-system Interfaces and Symbols
                    Convener: K. Holdaway, IBM USA
                    SWG on Keyboards
                    Convener: Y. Neuville, M of Ed., France
     ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 Programming Languages, their environments and
                    system software interfaces
               SC22/WG11 Bindings (incl. Lang. Indep. Datatypes)
                    Convener: W. Wakker, ACE, NL
               SC22/WG15 POSIX (incl. character issues: I18n)
                    Contact: K. Simonsen, DK
               SC22/WG20 Internationalisation  (incl. character issues)
                    Convener: A. Winkler, Unisys, USA
     ISO TC46     Information and Documentation
               SC2  Conversion of written languages
                    Chairman: J. Meyriat, ADBS, France

 Independent groups:
 AFII:           (Association for Font Information interchange):
                    Contact: A. Griffee, IBM, USA
 Kermit:
                    Contact: F. da Cruz, Chr. M. Gianone, Columbia U USA
 TeX:
                    Contact: B. Beeton, Editor TUGBOAT, AMS USA
               Rus-TeX:
                    Contact: D. Vulis, for Cyrillic, USA
 TEI:             The Text Encoding Initiative:
                    Contact: M. Sperberg-McQueen, USA
                    Contact: H. Gaylord, RUG, NL (for character issues)
 UNICODE:
                    Contact: A. Freytag, USA
 TERENA (exRARE) (Trans-European Research Networks Association)
               Working Group on Character Sets and Internationalization
               of the Networks Services
                    Contact: B. Jerman-Blazic, Slovenia
 XPLOR:          (User group of Large Printer Users)
                    Contact: L. Bruzelius, Sweden

&PUBLIC LISTSERVERS

 ISO8859@JHUVM     ASCII/EBCDIC character set related issues
 Subscription to LISTSERV@JHUVM
                    Contact: E. Hart, USA
 ISO10646@JHUVM    Multi-byte Code Issues
 Subscription to LISTSERV@JHUVM
                    Contact: E. Hart, USA
 POLYGLOT:         Electronic journal for multi-language computing
 (discontinued?)    Contact: S. Deerwester

 E-MAIL ADDRESSES   (success not guaranteed) # : presumably obsolete

 Randall K. Barry             rbar@loc.gov
 Joseph Becker                Becker.osbunorth@Xerox.COM
 Barbara Beeton               BNB@MATH.AMS.COM
 J%urgen Bettels              jbettels@WADD.ENET.DEC.COM
 Jan van den Beld             jan.van-den-beld@ECMA.CH
 Frank da Cruz                fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
 Klaus Daube                # KDA%SEAS@LIV.AC.UK
 Scott Deerwester             scott@tira.uchicago.edu
 Miles Ellis                # CTCMILES@VAX.OX.AC.UK
 Phil Ford                    pford@vnet.ibm.com
 Harry Gaylord                GALIARD@gufalet.let.rug.nl
 Christine M Gianone          cmg@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
 Borka Jerman-Blazic          jerman-blazic@ijs.si
 Edwin Hart                   Edwin.Hart@jhuapl.edu
 Michael Sperberg-McQueen     U35395@UICVM.BITNET
 Unicode, Inc.                Unicode-Inc@unicode.org
 Dimitri Vulis              # DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET
 Johan van Wingen             PRECAL@rulmvs.LeidenUniv.nl

 Retired (but often still active):
 Klaus Appel
 W. F. Bohn
 J. Friemelt
 Edwin Smura
 Eiiti Wada

