Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread slevin
Hi IETF list, For the past 5 years, I've been processing written sign language as data. I've worked directly with the inventor of the script, which is over 30 years old. We are ready to standardize. The latest symbol was finalized last month after more than a year of improvements and refining.

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 10:50 AM Subject: Advice on publishing open standards ... For the past 5 years, I've been processing written sign language as data. I've worked directly with the inventor of the script, which is over 30 years

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 28 November, 2008 11:02 -0800 Randy Presuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 10:50 AM Subject: Advice on publishing open standards ... For the past 5 years, I've been processing written sign language

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread slevin
. Regards, -Steve Hi - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 10:50 AM Subject: Advice on publishing open standards ... For the past 5 years, I've been processing written sign language as data. I've worked directly with the inventor of the script, which

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
, -Steve Hi - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 10:50 AM Subject: Advice on publishing open standards ... For the past 5 years, I've been processing written sign language as data. I've worked directly with the inventor of the script, which is over 30

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread Doug Ewell
slevin at signpuddle dot net wrote: First, Unicode is written in stone. A gross overgeneralization. Unicode characters are not allowed to be moved or renamed once they have been encoded. New characters can always be added, though. Our latest symbol set may be our last, but maybe not.

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread slevin
: Advice on publishing open standards ... For the past 5 years, I've been processing written sign language as data. I've worked directly with the inventor of the script, which is over 30 years old. We are ready to standardize. The latest symbol was finalized last month after more than

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread slevin
Our latest symbol set may be our last, but maybe not. In 2 or 3 years, we may update our symbol set. This would cause problems because Unicode is not allowed to change. How good an idea is it to attempt to standardize a character encoding in which it is expected that characters might still

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread slevin
You would face two problems with the IETF. One is that we rarely take on work for which we cannot add value and do effective reviews. The other is that we generally don't do work that is not Internet-specific, and your audience would seem much broader that the Internet alone. Terms like

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread Tony Hansen
One note about the charset name. The registered name would be charset=iswa-2008, *not* charset=x-iswa-2008. The x- prefix should only be used for experimenting until the name is registered. Per RFC 2978, section 3.1, x- prefix can only be used *until* the registration is complete. You should also

RE: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread michael.dillon
For the past 5 years, I've been processing written sign language as data. I've worked directly with the inventor of the script, which is over 30 years old. We are ready to standardize. The latest symbol was finalized last month after more than a year of improvements and refining. I

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:28:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, Unicode is used with sequential scripts: one character after another. Our script is spatial: the words are characters written in space based on coordinates. The words are sequential, but not the characters. Even if we

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread Tim Bray
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - There are several issues with Unicode. Many of the world's standards organizations, including the IETF to some degree, have more or less outsourced issues of character definition and specification to Unicode. Were your writing

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, November 28, 2008 4:20 PM -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would face two problems with the IETF. One is that we rarely take on work for which we cannot add value and do effective reviews. The other is that we generally don't do work that is not Internet-specific, and your