2011/8/24 Doug Ewell <[email protected]>: > As Richard said, and you probably already know, there is no chance that > UTC will ever do anything with the PUA, especially anything that gives > the appearance of endorsing its use. I'm just thankful they haven't > deprecated it.
The appearance of endorsing its use would only come if the website describing the registry was using a frame using the Unicode logo. It can act exactly like the CSUR registry, as an independant project (with its own membership and participation policies), that would also be helpful for collaborating with liaison members, ISO NB's, or some local cultural organizations or collaborative projects. The focus of this registry would only be for helping the encoding process: registered PUAs or PUA ranges would not survive to finalized proposals that were formally proposed and rejected by both the UTC and WG2, and abandonned as well by its iniital promoters in the registry (no new updated proposal), or to proposals that have been finally released in the UCS (and there would likely be a short timeframe for the death of these registrations, probably not exceeding one year). It would be different from the CSUR, because CSUR also focuses on supported PUAs that will never be suppoorted in the UCS (for example, due to legal reasons, such as copyright which would restrict the publication of any "representative" glyph in the UCS charts), or creative/artistic designs (For example, I'm still not convinced that Klingon qualifies for encoding in the UCS, because of copyright restrictions and absence of a formal free licence from right owners; the same would apply to any collection of logos, including the logos of national or international standard bodies that you can find on lots of manufactured products and in their documentation, because the usage of these logos is severely restricted and often implies contractual assessments by those displaying it on their products or publications; this would also apply to corporate logos, even if they are widely used, sometimes with permission, but this time because these logos frequently change for marketing reasons).
