Re: [idn] Supporting list for Draft-liana

[DougEwell2@cs.com]

Liana Ye <liana.ydisg@juno.com> wrote:

>  No, not all of the names are actively participating in
>  the WG discussion, but all of them are in computer,
>  computational linguistic or computation fields with at 
>  least 5 years of working experiences as far as I know. 
>  Are there guide lines on who is qualified to give support?  

and James Seng <James@Seng.cc> responded:

>  No defined guideline but it is expected the people should at least be wg
>  members. I could ask my mom, my father, my bro and my wife to support my
>  XXX draft but people is obviously going to question the validity of the
>  support.

I am not a member of the WG.  I am a member of this mailing list who 
subscribed via the normal "public" channels because I was interested in the 
subject matter, specifically the question of which ACE will be used in the 
IDN system.  In general I have not especially favored the addition of 
language-specific hacks (like Soobok's CJK code point shuffling) and 
non-Unicode solutions (like Liana's StepCode).

However, based on what I know about Unicode encoding schemes and transfer 
encoding syntaxes, and what I have learned about the various ACEs, I did 
offer my support for AMC-ACE-Z about a month ago.  Was this wrong?  Should I 
be considered not qualified to cast a vote in a straw poll because I am not a 
WG member?

Obviously, asking the neighbor's 9-year-old son to support my IDN solution 
would be bogus, but in general the dividing line is not clear between who is 
qualified and who is not.  Liana's supporters may have knowledge in this 
field and may have something intelligent to contribute, even if I and other 
list members disagree with the proposal.

James wrote:

>  Ultimately, whether one draft get accepted still depends on the
>  rest of the wg members support, not your just 7 supporter.

This is the real point.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California