Will this document be made public? Or is there an intention to conceal it from the public, or from the user community of the scripts in question? While I understand that certain Unicode internal documents may be confidential, is it really in order for a whole proposal to be kept confidential?
I am certain that WG2 will not be able to accept any proposal which has not been made public and on which the user community has not been given the opportunity to comment. I am copying this to Mike Ksar, WG2 convener, to ensure that he understands the situation.
I will take the opportunity of reminding Mike Ksar that the original proposal N2746, http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2746.pdf, contained factual errors, in particular the statement in C 2a that no contact has been made with members of the user community. In fact there had been considerable contact before the proposal was made, as well as afterwards, with scholarly users of Phoenician script, as documented in part in the archives of the Unicode list, but these users have been almost unanimously opposed to the proposal. I trust that this error has been corrected in the revised version of the proposal. If it has not, that should in itself be sufficient grounds for rejection of the proposal on the grounds that the proposer is attempting to deceive the committee.
-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.qaya.org/
