From: "Richard Tobin" <>
> >The best way to meet the goals of getting support for Unicode 3.1
> >out faster may be *not* to go 1.1 but just update 1.0 (strictly in
> >areas relating to tracking Unicode) with a suitable caution
> >that this will take a while to be deployed and that old parsers
> >may fail.
>
> As you know, there are some people who would object very strongly to
> that.
Sure. But it is a pragmatic trade-off against the potential for disruption
and flow-ons with other standards.
As I wrote elsewhere, I think the version number system is inadequate:
a three-part (for example) would give the Core WG more wiggle room.
major.minor.edition
where a parser should accept any edition, older versions
of the minor, and only needs except one major number. Whatever,
it needs to be better defined.
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
