Re: Submitting Proposals (was: Re: Proposal to include CE Mark)

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Date: Sun May 10 2009 - 21:50:45 CDT

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    Quoting "Mark Davis" <mark.edward.davis@gmail.com>:

    > Michael is correct.
    >
    > There is no guarantee that a character accepted into Unicode will be
    > accepted into ISO 10646.
    >
    > Nor is there any guarantee that a character accepted into ISO 10646 will be
    > accepted into Unicode.
    >
    > That being said, both committees see the value of synchronization, and have
    > always worked together towards it. The proposal forms are unified, as are
    > the policies and procedures. So submission can be to either body. Because
    > the UTC meets more often, it may be useful to submit there first so as to
    > get more discussion; and any characters that have unusual properties or
    > other behavior are best first submitted to the UTC, since that is the place
    > for the definition of the character properties and algorithms that are
    > ultimately used by computer systems to support the characters.
    >

    However in pratice the process is that proposals submitted to the UTC
    are then submitted to WG2, where changes both small and large are a
    matter of course, but that after proposals leave WG2 for SC2 they are
    never changed. Many proposals quiet correctly go directly to WG2.

    John

    > Mark
    >
    >
    > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 02:30, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
    >
    >> On 9 May 2009, at 04:26, Christopher Fynn wrote:
    >>
    >> Do proposals now need to be submitted to the UTC for consideration before
    >>> they are submitted to WG2??
    >>>
    >>
    >> NO, they do NOT.
    >>
    >>
    >> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >

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