Re: Fwd: Last Call: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 to Proposed

At 05:07 PM 12/14/99 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>My personal opinion is that it should have gone Informational.

If we ever get to the point of putting XML-based protocols on standards 
track *and* we want to allow those protocols to use UTF-16/LE/BE (because 
this is allowed by the W3C's XML standard), then I think the UTF-16 
document should be on standards track. I could certainly see a world where 
we want XML-based protocols where UTF-16/BE/LE are prohibited; that would 
be a good world. But if we want to allow interoperable UTF-16 in standards 
track documents, I think this should be on standards track.

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