I-D draft-slevinski-signwriting-text

The Internet Draft, draft-slevinski-signwriting-text was submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force.
 * version 00 on November 5th, 2012.
 * version 01 on May 9th, 2013
 * version 02 on November 9th, 2013

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I-D Review
The official status of the I-D is available.

The document has been discusses with Valerie Sutton, Richard Gleaves, and Jonathan Duncan. Version 02 is a reduction and simplification of the original content.

The I-D includes 5 main sections and 3 appendixes.

Section 1: SignWriting Script
Includes a general discussion of the SignWriting script. Both the Block Printing and the Handwriting families are discussed.

Section 2: SignWriting Text
A script encoding model for SignWriting Block Printing. Formal structures for logographic sign are mixed with punctuation to form text.

Section 3: Formal SignWriting
Discusses the mathematical ASCII strings that name each sign logogram.

Section 4: Unicode Integration
Discusses the private use area font characters and the proposed characters on plane 1

Section 5: IANA Considerations
Discusses the registration of 3 coded character sets.

Appendix A: Modern SignWriting
Discusses the theory and example document from Jan, 12, 2012

Appendix B: ISWA 2010
Discusses the SignWriting grapheme, symbolset, and symbol encoding of the ISWA 2010. Symbols are visually iconic, uniquely identified, and organized in a layered hierarchy.

Appendix C: SignPuddle Standard
Defines the licenses, infrastructure, and the data available

I-D Reviewers
Thanks for the edits and comments via email. I included the corrections before I submitted to the IETF.

If you have reviewed this I-D, and you would like your name included here, please let me know.

Valerie Sutton
As always, Valerie Sutton has reviewed my work as part of our collaboration. Valerie has a visual understanding of writing and sign language; Steve has a conceptual understanding of mathematical models. Together, we make sure the script is handled properly for the writer and the text encoding.

Richard Gleaves
Richard Gleaves is the original encoder of the SignWriting script. He has reviewed the I-D and approves of the design. He is proud of the international community that is a continuation of his earlier work.

Jonathan Duncan
Author of the SignWriter Studio dictionary application for Windows.

I-D Resources
This I-D specifies the ASCII strings and the Private Use Area Unicode. The previous I-D draft-slevinski-iswa-2010 expired in the middle of 2011.


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