It is clear with the flurry of activity that there are problems. They have been this way for the better part of the year because, frankly, there have been no responses to problems in the formulation of CONTEXTO raised in November, and raised again in April. So when finally there there is some engagement and progress is being made, it is pretty darned annoying to call it "too late".<br>
<br>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/25 John C Klensin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klensin@jck.com">klensin@jck.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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--On Friday, July 24, 2009 09:23 -0700 Mark Davis ⌛<br>
<<a href="mailto:mark@macchiato.com">mark@macchiato.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>...<br>
<div class="im">> it should just be<br>
> made PVALID, and be done with it rather than have all of this<br>
> last minute jiggering.<br>
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</div>Mark,<br>
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Perspectives no doubt differ but, from my standpoint, the "last<br>
minute jiggering" is the effort to switch codepoints that have<br>
been in particular categories for the better part of a year into<br>
other categories. Despite the very clear, "this is how it is"<br>
tone of your comments on these subjects, I think it should be<br>
clear to all of us that, for any of these things, there are<br>
judgment calls and tradeoffs involved and one can reason about<br>
them in different ways. I think we are at, or close to, the<br>
point that the risks of moving things around without due<br>
consideration are such that it would be useful to demonstrate<br>
harm from leaving them categorized as they are, not just to say<br>
"this is no worse than that".<br>
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YMMD.<br>
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