Re: [idn] Supporting list for Draft-liana

[liana.ydisg@juno.com]

Hi, Doug:

That is the vague part of the supporting procedure 
that I have in mind, too.  And I did not release this on 
purpose, I have used it to see what people understand
and what part they do not understand, that is the 
reason I have this list ready to in the leaked form. 

Since the list is leaked out, I think it is not bad idea
to discuss this in the open anyway.  Thanks for all of  
you who speaks out.  

And I think your question on my draft is reasonable, and 
that is the question I am working on the new draft  to try to 
explain.  For StepCode  to work, it has to be keyed to 
Unicode, and  with a language tag on all labels to help
the users groups tell how to handle the interface in 
display.   Any  critics are contributions to the discussion.

Keyed to Unicode is to solve the imcompatible problems
 of all the existing national standards on local servers and 
on clients.  And these local display standards may die out
 when everyone wants to use Unicode only. 

Liana


On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:16:10 EDT DougEwell2@cs.com writes:
> 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