Mark Davis wrote at 3:43 PM on Wednesday, January 14, 2004: >The UTC is then responsible for making the final decisions. A proposal may go >back and forth several times before all the issues are resolved. Now, the fact >that we have respected UTC members as a part of that initiative makes this >process much, much smoother, since they will have been able to provide >information to the initiative as to the architectural trade-offs involved in >different models. Still, other UTC members may have concerns that are first >raised in the full committee meeting, and all members will need to have >background information on the alternative models so that they can make >informed decisions.
Plus, it goes the other way. It is good, even necessary, for cuneiformists to be informed in this iterative process by input from a broad spectrum of Unicode specialists. >2. The Unicode list is an informal, open list for discussion. Certainly anyone >can bring up any Unicode-connected topic (within certain broad limits of >taste) >on that list, but it is *not* connected with the decision-making process >of the >UTC. Thus any feedback received on the list is purely informal (and sometimes >random, based on the individual involved). An internal dispute within the >Initiative has little place on this list. Yes. That's why, other than responding to posts arising from the Unicode list itself, I have tried to pose to it only those issues (typically technical ones) which I thought could benefit from the feedback of a broader Unicode community than the few Unicodist experts on the Cuneiform list, capable though they be. And I am thankful for the feedback I have received so far; it has been helpful. I'm looking forward to more. Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
