I do not understand John Cowan's anger, and I do not take personally his accusation of racial discrimination, as he is clearly unaware that I have, for many years, personally fostered/facilitated and even led multi-racial delegations from Ireland to attend various standardization bodies, but, if John regularly reads this list, he hardly needs reminding that EGT financed many, many such trips without me, and had no qualms about entrusting Ireland's vote to trusted colleagues from other countries on most of those occasions.
I am not ashamed to display a conference nametag displaying clearly my country of origin, and would expect anyone from any other country to be equally proud to display theirs, when appropriate, even if only as a dual label (for example, at that Dublin conference, when the silliness of doing otherwise became obvious). I am sorry, Sarasvati, about the advertising - you must do as you wish about that - I think your list a good place to recruit, as others before me, fresh talent for work of which most subscribers, I think, approve, and, since Unicode Conferences generally feature large quantities of advertising from global IT vendors, I see no harm at all in Unicode's allowing small companies a slice of the same here, with your permission. I do not feel at all comfortable continuing with this discussion, and would prefer to have my questions about Unicode (its staffing levels) and WG 2 (its timetable for 10646) answered, as more appropriate to this list. mg -- Marion Gunn * E G T (Estab.1991) vox: +353-1-2839396 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 P�irc an Fh�ithlinn; Baile an Bh�thair; Contae �tha Cliath; �ire
