Acknowledgements

This document represents the culmination of several years of debate and experiments done under the auspices of the MIT X Consortium i18n working group. Although this was a group effort, the author remains responsible for any errors or omissions.

We would like to thank to all members of this group. And we would like to make special thanks to the following people (in alphabetical order) for their participation in the IM Protocol design, Hector Chan, Takashi Fujiwara, Yoshio Horiuchi, Makoto Inada, Hiromu Inukai, Mickael Kung, Seiji Kuwari, Franky Ling, Hiroyuki Machida, Hiroyuki Miyamoto, Frank Rojas, Bob Scheifler, Makiko Shimamura, Shoji Sugiyama, Hidetoshi Tajima, Masaki Takeuchi, Makoto Wakamatsu, Masaki Wakao, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Shigeru Yamada, Katsuhisa Yano, Jinsoo Yoon.