But it's true that the United States have delegated several times their official international representation to the Unicode Concertium, acting on behalf of the US government for some decisions or some limited domains (this is valid because Unicode is incorporated in US, a necessary condition to represent the US government in international organizations); this is a private contractual arrangement between Unicode and the official US representant, but this does not change the rights of Unicode at ISO.
This, of course, is about as accurate as your spelling of the word Consortium. In other words, entirely fictitious. Now, if there was a 'Concertium', which I wouldn't know, never having heard of a body with that spelling, perhaps that body did do many of the things you claim, but the 'Consortium' never did.
As a US domiciled organization, the Unicode Consortium is one of many members of the relevant working group of the US Standardization organization INCITS. I know this firsthand, because I am one of the delegates. Other members in that working group include other US domiciled organizations such as IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Sybase, AOL etc.
I find myself in a similar situation to Mark Davis: I don't have the time to respond to every piece of misinformation that's been thrown out on this thread.
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