From: Erkki Kolehmainen (erkki.kolehmainen@kotus.fi)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2006 - 02:05:59 CDT
Several national standards bodies have already established at some level
a liaisonship with Unicode for the express purpose of working on the
CLDR. These include Finland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden, and the
European CEN/ISSS Cultural Diversity Focus Group has also joined
recently, although that relationship hasn't become truly active yet.
Erkki I. Kolehmainen
Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
>
>>And may be, create a new formal working group separate from the UTC,
>>for working on localization issues,
>>
>
> This already exists: the CLDR-TC
>
> http://www.unicode.org/consortium/tc-procedures.html
>
> and
>
> http://www.unicode.org/cldr/process.html
>
>
>>and also send an invitation to ISO to support this working group.
>>
>
> Such invitations are regularly extended through normal Unicode
> Consortium liaison relationships with other standards organizations.
>
>
>>The main problem with ISO is that its members are governments only,
>>and they often support only the official languages.
>>
>
> This is a serious issue for work on the Common Locale Data
> Repository, but equally serious is the widespread and
> continuing perception that *only* ISO can deal with
> internationally relevant standards. ISO's claim to ownership
> of "International Standards" and of the process of international
> standardization gets in the way sometimes when some other
> standards development organization (SDO) is working on a technical
> standard that has international relevance.
>
> This continually trips up groups dealing with fast-developing
> technical standards, on both sides of the perception divide.
>
> --Ken
>
>
>
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