> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Peter Kirk
> But what happens when a proposal put forward by the UTC is rejected by > voting members of WG2... We cannot categorize what has happened as voting members of WG2 rejecting a UTC proposal. First, what has happened is that voting members of WG2 balloted an amendment to ISO 10646. That amendment included many items, some proposed by the US, having first been accepted by UTC, and some coming from other sources. Secondly, the results of the voting do not terminate the process: the voting was not simply yea/nay with more nay votes. Rather, both yea and nay votes came with comments; all 5 of the negative votes were contingent: the NBs indicated their vote would change to positive if comments are accepted. So, what will happen? WG2 will meet and work out how all of these comments should be resolved so that the amendment can move forward. Resolving the issues could mean that something gets changed from what is currently proposed. It could mean something gets removed from the amendment. It could also mean that nothing whatsoever is changed, but that WG2 decides (after discussing together) that each item proposed in the amendment should be left as it is. As for the impact on the relationship of Unicode to ISO 10646, if WG2 ends up changing or removing something from the amendment, then UTC will have to evaluate those revisions and decide what they want to do. One thing to keep in mind: the five NBs that voted negatively did so mostly for different reasons (the one proposal that had items of common concern to several NBs was N'ko: Canada, Japan and US all commented on the apostrophe in the script name). If something is really contentious, then WG2 can choose to split up an amendment, making the contentious item a separate amendment. If that were to happen, I don't think there's anything proposed in amendment 2 that wouldn't eventually get approved (after outstanding details had been worked out). Peter Constable
