From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 19:58:57 EST
On 12/08/03 18:21, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>And not complete. That is simply the draft for the PDAM
>(preliminary draft amendment) to 10646. It will be subject
>to national ballot comments, which will, no doubt, result
>in further additions, as well as some minor modifications to
>what is currently there. And then it will go to *another*
>round of ballotting after that, the FPDAM ("F" for final),
>where more changes could happen.
>
So it's a "Final Preliminary Draft Amendment"? And then eventually the
"We Really Mean It, This Is *It* Preliminary Draft Amendment"? And THEN
maybe it gets out of preliminary and all the way to "draft"?? Wow. The
wheels sure turn slowly.
Kind of like a white Black Mariah or a blue RedHerring...
>Only after *that* will the UTC feel confident that the
>dust has settled enough to standardize the results as
>Unicode 4.1. Don't be expecting any of this to be
>final this year, or even *next* year. The next character
>additions to the Unicode Standard are likely to be
>published in early 2005.
>
Wow.
~mark
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