I think the whole thread got overheated, and Andrew was just responding to other heated comments. So it might be time to let this thread cool off a bit.
The collaboration over the years between the Unicode Consortium and ISO has been, on the whole, a remarkable success. There have been frictions—as in any human enterprise—but the parties have worked to smooth those over, and to operate in good faith to incorporate the characters that are important to each side. The rising bureaucracy on the ISO side has made progress and collaboration increasingly difficult, but that did not originate with the SC2 or WG2 participants, who are often just as frustrated by it.
