I'm a little late in adding my comment, but I have quite some difficulty 
in understanding this. To me, IPA is but one of the surprisingly many 
phonetic alphabets of this world, albeit probably the most commonly 
used. Others include e.g. UPA (the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet) and LMA 
(the Swedish Landsmålsalfabetet), both of which I'm somewhat familiar 
with, since I've been involved in the encoding of them in the 
UCS/Unicode. The usage of the phonetic alphabets also has a tendency to 
be based on extensive cross-boundary character loans even from other 
scripts than the Latin script, under which they are now listed.

   However, it would make a lot of sense to be able to identify a text 
as having been written using _some_ phonetic alphabet (for which a 
separate script code could be used if a more suitable solution cannot be 
found). This could then be further identified by the code for the 
specific, most dominant alphabet, such as IPA, used to write the text. 
My point is that the IPA identification problem should not be solved by 
such a special treatment that it could not be applied to the other 
phonetic alphabets.

Sincerely, Erkki I. Kolehmainen

Marion Gunn wrote:

> To say Ireland (NSAI) is responsible for the refusal to register IPA  as 
> an ISO 15924 script is as unfair as it is untrue.
> 
> I am writing to confirm that Irish users were as put out by that  
> negative decision as users elsewhere, and that that negative decision  
> was not made by NSAI.
> 
> ISO 15924 is nominally the responsibility of ISO/TC 46, although not  
> under normal TC 46 control, either, and that negative decision was  made 
> by the ISO 15924 advisory committee, currently made up as follows:
> One representative of the Registration Authority:
> Michael Everson, Evertype
> One representative of the ISO 639-2/RA:
> Randall K. Barry, Library of Congress
> One representative of ISO TC37:
> Håvard Hjulstad, Språk- og terminologitjenester
> One representative of ISO TC46:
> François Demay, Encyclopaedia Universalis
> Two representatives of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2:
> Rick McGowan, Unicode Consortium
> Ken Whistler, Sybase
> 
> That AC failed to offer a cogent argument against tagging IPA in ISO  
> 15924 and, during a public exchange on the LTRU list, its members all  
> failed to address most of the points raised, for example, when Mark  
> Davis of International Components for Unicode pointed out that [ISO  
> 15924] already "incorporates variations which are essentially  
> orthography (Hant vs Hans), and other differences that are simply  
> glyphic variation (Fraktur Latin)" their answer was silence.
> 
> The grounds for registering IPA as a script have been long since  
> established: it looks like a script, behaves like a script and only  
> requires standard ISO tagging to facilitate proper electronic script  
> processing. An IPA tag is urgently needed by NSAI's Irish-speaking  
> communities, (so I must continue pressing for it), as well as being  
> needed by university researchers and practical speech therapists in  so 
> many countries that a positive decision to tag it for use needs to  made 
> without delay, to open the door for Net searches for texts  written in IPA.
> 
> Because that particular ISO AC was set up with a built-in US majority  
> (4 out of 6), it is the logical responsibility of ANSI (_not_ NSAI)  to 
> ensure that such overloading in a big country's favour not be any  
> excuse for refusing/delaying reasonable service requests from smaller  
> countries. No country, however big it is, has any right to have such  
> control over any international standards — however obtained, that  
> amount of control carries with it an equal amount of answerability  for 
> concomitant results.
> 
> Accordingly, I respectfully request that ANSI use its influence to to  
> good effect, to persuade such members of the ISO 15924 AC as it can  
> influence to reverse their negative decision in re registering IPA in  
> ISO 15924.
> 
> FWIW, I wish to affirm that I still believe in ISO 15924's potential  
> quite as much as I did many years ago, when I was NSAI's sole  
> representative in ISO/TC 37, where I first brought its first NWI  draft 
> to ISO/TC 37's attention (and after it was blocked in TC 37,  supported 
> its adoption in ISO/TC 46), that I regard its inception by  Michael 
> Everson as something very much to his credit, and that I  would also 
> regard it as to Mr Everson's credit were he now to reverse  his vote 
> (withdraw his opposition to registing IPA as a script).
> 
> I hold it as a reasonable expectation that the rest would probably  follow.
> mg
> Convener, NSAI ISO/TC 46 IG
> 
> - -
> Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991)
> 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an
> Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire.
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