[Design] Multilingualism and security design requestsKaitlin 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.
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