Re: Bidi in HTML  From: Martin J Duerst ( Date: Mon May 13 1996
- 08:20:48 EDT  Jonathan Rosenne wrote:  >First, I would like to
apologize for joining the discussion so late. >Most of the
standards people in Israel were not aware of the draft >until
very recently, and it was a crash project to get the comments
The draft is the work of the ietf working group on html. Most
standards (in the ISO sense) people are not very aware of ietf
work anyway :-(. The ietf working groups, in contrast to other
institutions, are really pure volunteer groups, and so they
frequently have no time to advertize their work. However, both
Glenn Adams and Francois Yergeau have made presentations about
HTML and i18n on the web last September at the Unicode
conference in San Jose, and for anybody really interested in
Unicode not aware of that work after that conference, there is
not much of an excuse.  Anyway, the ietf also has the principle
that any acutal or perceived issues should be resolved by
finding good technical solutions acc