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Copyright © 2005
W3C (MIT, ERCIM, Keio)
History
Background
late 1990s
Richard Ishida explores ideas about developing XML
formats for
multilingual use
June 2000
Richard presents at LISA Forum presentation,
Tokyo,
"Localization Considerations in DTD
Design"
late 2000
Steven Forth gets people together, and introduces
Yves
Savourel to the mix
2001
Richard and Yves publish "Requirements for
Localizable DTD
Design."
Jan 2005
ITS Working Group starts under W3C
Internationalization
Activity, Yves Savourel chairs - requirements
developed, then
Working Drafts for tag set and best
practices
May 2006
Last call review for tag set document
Now
Last call completed, commenters satisfied - very
soon hope to
move tag set to Candidate
Recommendation
Next
Create tests and implementations and move tag set
on to full
Recommendation, then move best practices to WG
Note
