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The goal of this presentation is to inform the audience about the architecture of the ISO 10646/Unicode Standard and to increase the confidence of the audience in the strength of the relationship between the ISO technical working group (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC2/WG2) and the Unicode Consortium. Now there is only one International Standard that contains the repertoire of the major scripts and languages of the world. As new repertoires are added the need for working together to preserve the International Standard is more paramount. The ISO technical working group and the Unicode Consortium continue to cooperate in the implementation of a process on how to evaluate any new additions to the repertoire. Several officers from the ISO technical working group participated in the review of the Unicode 2.0 Book to ensure the continued convergence of both documents. The Unicode 2.0 Book provides renewed guidance to implementers of the International Standard that ensures a uniform and consistent interpretation of the standard across a variety of platforms. It is essential to proceed on this path to meet the original user requirements of having only one International Standard that is flexible and easy to implement. This International Standard is one of the building block in creating a global and interoperable solutions across multiple platforms that meet and reflects the global market requirements. The author wishes to thank Asmus Freytag of the Unicode Consortium for permission to use materials from another presentation and his generous input and support during the editing of this presentation. Parts of this presentation are © Copyright 1996-1997, Unicode, Inc. Unicode, and the Unicode logo are trademarks of Unicode, Inc. and registered in some jurisdictions. Used with permission.