Yes, if you can't attend, the best plan is to work closely with someone who will be in attendance (ideally a voting member) so that they have the background to educate others in the meeting as to the important issues.
Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► “Eppur si muove” ◄ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ted Hopp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 18:19 Subject: Re: From [b-hebrew] Variant forms of vav with holem > On 30/07/2003 17:04, Mark Davis wrote: > > >We should make sure that you all understand that this email list is an > >open disucssion list for anyone interested in Unicode. > > > >Consensus on this list does *not* imply agreement by the Unicode > >consortium technical committee (UTC), whose voting members are the > >full members listed on > >http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html. > > > > > Thanks for the clarification. I didn't mean to imply that decisions were > made by consensus on this list, rather that consensus on this list and > agreement by a number of key UTC members (e.g. in this case Ken > Whistler, who seems to understand the situation well and be in general > agreement with what Ted and I are saying) is a good basis for moving > forward to a formal proposal; whereas sharp disagreement on this list > would suggest that a proposal, at least from outsiders like Ted and > myself, is unlikely to be successful. > > >The UTC accepts and considers proposals from other parties (see > >http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html for submitting a > >proposal for new characters). For complex matters (which this > >definitely seems to be, based on the volumn of mail!), it is far and > >away the best if someone can attend the appropriate UTC meeting to > >explain the details of the proposal, with the pros and cons of > >different approaches. The chair or vice chair of the UTC should be > >contacted in that case. > > > >Mark > > > I regret that I will be unable to attend a UTC meeting in the near > future, certainly unless anyone pays my fare from London. So I will > probably have to rely on others to present any proposal which I might be > a party to. But I can help to provide background material. Indeed I am > drafting something now and will make it available soon. > > -- > Peter Kirk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/ > > >
