Re: Unicode/10646 History (was Re: [idn] An ignorant question about TC<-> SC)

[Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>]

Eric,

You asked:

> Since this is still of the form "people can judge for themselves",
> 
> Exactly who, from what group, was, in 1990, participating in the
> activity from SMI, and from IBM?

SMI? SMI Soft of Japan? smisoft.com SMI Corporation of Tulsa? smisoftware.com
Infineon Technologies? smi/siemens.com Surveyors Module International?
smi.com Nobody from any entity called SMI has ever been involved in the Unicode
Consortium, to the best of my knowledge.

From IBM: Isai Scheinberg of the IBM standards group in Toronto.
J.G. Van Stee, also of the IBM standards group, but based in
California. At the time, Jerry Andersen of IBM was chair of
to the Unicode-inspired rewrite of DIS-1.

> 
> Again, in 1992, for DEC, SMI, and HP.

SMI, again, nobody. If you meant SGI, they didn't get involved
until later, and very marginally.

DEC: Avery Bishop -- working in the OS area, not printers.

HP: Mike Ksar -- standards. He had, of course, a background
in working on printers, but by 1992 was no longer doing so,
but was working just on standards.

--Ken