From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 21:30:50 EDT
Kenneth Whistler wrote at 12:20 PM on Wednesday, April 28, 2004:
>> Currently, I view the PUA as practically a wasteland, unusable for even
>> for the most basic research work.
>
>A wise decision, all in all.
Then why have the word, "Use" in the name, "Private Use Area"?
>> Is it simply out of the question, to review PUA policies and
>> implementation in Unicode? Could not the PUA, or possibly multiple PUA's,
>> retain their almost wild west independence and entrepreneurial spirit,
>> and still have a few sheriffs hanging around here and there to impose
>> some minimal expectation of law and order?
>
>But who would you cast in the role of sheriff? James Garner is
>getting a little old for that kind of thing, and I didn't see
>anyone with the right acting resume among the Persians.
I'll be glad to deputize you ;-)
Seriously though, you misunderstand what I am suggesting, probably
because I was not clear enough.
One encounters all kinds of lawless "characters" in the wild west PUA; is
it beyond discussion to suggest adding some minimal set of laws and law-
enforcing "characters" that would still let us kill off all the buffaloes
if we really want to?
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
218C New Engineering Building
3400 North Charles Street
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218
office: 410 516-6850
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