John Cowan wrote:

> [...]
> IMNSHO it is a waste of time. Also note that it is dated
> 1997, and meanwhile Unicode has taken over the computing
> universe.

Moreover, a draft that remains such for six years should probably be called
"a relic".

IMHO, the author of that invention abandoned it when he discovered that it
had already been invented and called "SCSU":

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr6/

_ Marco