RFC 3718 (rfc3718) - Page 1 of 11
A Summary of Unicode Consortium Procedures, Policies, Stability, and Public Access
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Network Working Group R. McGowan
Request for Comments: 3718 Unicode
Category: Informational February 2004
A Summary of Unicode Consortium Procedures, Policies, Stability,
and Public Access
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo describes various internal workings of the Unicode
Consortium for the benefit of participants in the IETF. It is
intended solely for informational purposes. Included are discussions
of how the decision-making bodies of the Consortium work and their
procedures, as well as information on public access to the character
encoding & standardization processes.
1. Introduction
This memo describes various internal workings of the Unicode
Consortium for the benefit of participants in the IETF. It is
intended solely for informational purposes. Included are discussions
of how the decision-making bodies of the Consortium work and their
procedures, as well as information on public access to the character
encoding & standardization processes.
2. About The Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is a corporation. Legally speaking, it is a
"California Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation", organized under
section 501 C(6) of the Internal Revenue Service Code of the United
States. As such, it is a "business league" not focussed on profiting
by sales or production of goods and services, but neither is it
formally a "charitable" organization. It is an alliance of member
companies whose purpose is to "extend, maintain, and promote the
Unicode Standard". To this end, the Consortium keeps a small office,
a few editorial and technical staff, World Wide Web presence, and
mail list presence.
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