L2/04-064

From: Jerry Cooper
Date: 2004-02-01 21:29:41 -0800
Subject: unicode proposal

Rick, as much as I deplore the way Everson and Feuerherm froze Dean 
Snyder out of the authorship of  the Unicode proposal that was 
substantially the work of Steve Tinney and NEVER would have come to pass 
without Dean's hard work and dedication, I completely support that 
proposal against all competition, including Dean's revision.  I 
especially am opposed to Lloyd Anderson's proposal.  Lloyd is not a 
cuneiformist.  He was at all of the ICE meetings and had ample time to 
make his views and proposals known to the group that was preparing the 
proposal.  That group consisted of a number of highly respected 
cuneiformists, and the Tinney proposal represents the consensus of those 
professionals. 

Jerry Cooper
W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages
The Johns Hopkins University