> For the past 5 years, I've been processing written sign > language as data. > I've worked directly with the inventor of the script, which > is over 30 years old. > > We are ready to standardize. The latest symbol was finalized > last month after more than a year of improvements and refining. > > I believe I'll need to write 2 Internet Drafts followed by 2 RFCs. First, you have to give up control of the standard. This means that, for instance, the Makaton people and BLISS Symbolics people may very well make changes to the standard to accomodate their signing symbols. You really should have a look at the Tao of IETF <http://www.ietf.org/tao.html> before you publish an Internet draft. I'm not sure that this is the kind of thing that needs to be standardised via the IETF since it is not primarily about network protocols. Signwriting is more to do with encoding of graphical information and seems more closely related to w3.org's work with SVG and SVG fonts, not to mention the Unicode consortium. Also, I would suggest that you abandon the ASCII stuff since it seems to be just a roundabout way of defining standard bitmapped representations. --Michael Dillon --Michael Dillon _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf