Unicode -- not a registry? [was: phonetic superscripts]

From: Juliusz Chroboczek (jec@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 22 1999 - 19:02:39 EDT

Michael Everson <everson@indigo.ie>:

ME> Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 are ***NOT*** registries.

Could you please explain what this sentence means, for people not
familiar with standardisation procedures?

Thanks,

                                        J. Chroboczek

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