For the sake of integrity and interoperability, the names of the collections defined in the Multilingual European Subsets of the ISO/IEC 10646 (CWA 13873) must not be used in the ISO/IEC 10646 standard to denote other entities than those specified in the CEN Workshop Agreement. It is understandable, though, that there is a strong desire to add to the MES-3 collections (3A and 3B) those characters that would have routinely been included in the CWA had they been approved for inclusion in the 10646 standard at that time. Thus, one might add e.g. MES-3AR1 and MES-3BR1 with an appropriate note stating that they reflect the current status of the intended collections 3A and 3B as per the scope of the CWA. If need be, similar new collections may be added in the future, denoted 3AR2 and 3BR2, etc. At this stage, the reason to also include the original collections 3A and 3B (of the CWA) in the Annex would be to preserve the history. Our vote should be negative unless this issue will be rectified satisfactorily. Regards, Erkki _____________________________________________ Erkki I. Kolehmainen TIEKE Tietoyhteiskunnan kehittämiskeskus ry TIEKE Finnish Information Society Development Centre Salomonkatu 17 A 10, FIN-00100 HELSINKI, FINLAND Tel: +358 9 4763 0301, Fax: +358 9 4763 0399 http://www.tieke.fi