Open Source Applications Foundation

[Design] Multilingualism and security design requests

Kaitlin Duck Sherwood Fri, 07 Mar 2003 10:32:21 -0800


Hi, Edmund!

These topics aren't email, so I'm not as much of an authority (and am 
still new), but here's what I *think*:

Edmund Lian wrote:

>(1) Support for Unicode in particular, and support for languages other than
>English in general. 
>
We have already started talking about localization and 
internationalization.  That's important to us.

>(2) Some means of encrypting and "time-bombing" local replicas of
>databases. 
>
This is the first time I've heard of this idea, but it sounds interesting.

>(3) It would be great to have some way for user-specific data and
>profiles to "float" from one machine to another, so he/she can sit down at
>any client that is part of the same notional organization and pick up where
>he/she left off. 
>
I believe we realize that we're going to have to find some way to do 
that.  LDAP and IMAP will presumably help.