To Dr. James D. Mason From Yushi Komachi 1998-11-1 JST Subject NP or subdivision? Hi, Jim SC34/Japan has a plan to propose a new Amendment to ISO/IEC 9541-1 for supporting multilingual mixture. The amendment will be a set of additional font properties. This topic was discussed in the 3rd International Symposium on Standardization of Multilingual Information Technology (MLIT-3), where most Asian countries dispatched their experts of document processing and recognized their user requirements for the amendment. I attach the discussion paper and preliminary form of NP. Since the former SC18 has been restructured into SC34, I am not sure what kind of procedure should be taken for the new amendment. Could you suggest me the following: 1. AM1 and AM2 to 9541-1 were carried out by the subdivision of existing font project. Is it possible for the new amendment to be carried out by the subdivision as well? 2. If NP procedure should be taken, is the preliminary NP voting within SC18 applied to the SC34? 3. If NP procedure is taken, should the NP be provided by National body or SC34? Thank you. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------ Yushi Komachi Panasonic/MGCS 2-3-8 Shimomeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8687 Japan Phone +81 3 5434 7053, Fax +81 3 5445 3663 Email