Keld Simonsen, > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Keld Jorn Simonsen > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:07 PM > To: Michael Everson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Roadmaps > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:53:51PM +0100, Michael Everson wrote: > > The Roadmaps to Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 have been maintained by the > > ad-hoc committee on the Roadmap, which consists of Michael Everson, > > Rick McGowan, and Ken Whistler. They were hosted on Michael Everson's > > site, and this caused difficulties for WG2 in referencing them. The > > Unicode Consortium has offered to host the Roadmap documents as > > official Unicode documents, acknowledging their usefulness and > > stability. This should allow WG2 to reference them by the new URL > > (http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps). > > I think the problems fro WG2 to refernce Unicode web pages are the > same as referencing Michael eversons web site. If the roadmaps are > planning for the ISO standard, they should reside on the ISO web. >
I disagree with ISO's policy of charging for all of the public standards. It is a barrier for small developers. If I want ISO 639 codes for example, I look for public documents. These are copies of the ISO standards and may not be up to date or have transcription errors because a direct copies of the ISO files are copyright violations even if the data is a public standard that is free for all to use. For a while I thought that maybe we should make http://www.egt.ie/ a formal standards site and start a trust to maintain the site in the event of his demise or retirement. (Just kidding) Carl
