At 15:03 -0600 2002-10-14, Sean M. Burke wrote: >Gentlemen, begin your mocking: >http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/wsd/2002wsdindex.html
Good gracious me. "Each year on 14 October, the members of ISO, the IEC and ITU celebrate World Standards Day, which is a means of paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of the thousands of experts worldwide who develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as international standards." Even better than tribute would be if ISO, IEC, and ITU would make a contribution to the Script Encoding Initiative, at http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~dwanders/. (That goes for all of you. It's tax-deductible in the US and the end of the tax year approacheth.) -- ME