It is a requirement of an international standard that it is developed to meet the needs of a broad international user base. The embedding of culturally specific iconography into the xml, as for example the ST_BORDER_ART tag is both a technical deficiency as well as culturally inappropriate. The reference to a series of styles as ‘tribal’, ‘tribal1′, ‘tribal2′ etc reflects an ethno-centric, Victorian anthropological classification of art which has no place in a modern international standard.

Provide full normative definitions for all graphical elements, preferably with appropriately licenced SVG reference images. Use such hard-coded graphical elements minimally to represent lines, bullets, dashes etc. Provide a mechanism whereby the artwork can be supplemented.

Part 4, Section 2.18.4

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment ZA-0013 (Modified: 2008-01-04) Agreed; the naming for these patterns is inappropriate for an international standard; the following changes will be made to Part 4, §2.18.4, pages 1,674­1,676: tribal1 triangle1 ( Tribal Triangle Art Border One) Specifies an art border consisting of a repeated image of a tribal black and white triangle pattern as follows (showing two repetitions): As well, this art border shall be rotated such that the bottom of the image above is always nearest the text extents. At any corner where two borders of this type intersect, the intersection shall use the following image: tribal2 triangle2 ( Tribal Triangle Art Border Two) Specifies an art border consisting of a repeated image of a tribal pattern black and white triangles as follows (showing two repetitions): As well, this art border shall be rotated such that the bottom of the image above is always nearest the text extents. At any corner where two borders of this type intersect, the intersection shall use the following image, rotated appropriately: tribal3 triangleCircle1 ( Tribal Triangle And Circle Specifies an art border consisting of a repeated Art Border Three ) image of a tribal pattern black and white triangles and circles as follows (showing two repetitions): As well, this art border shall be rotated such that the bottom of the image above is always nearest the text extents. At any corner where two borders of this type intersect, the intersection shall use the following image, rotated appropriately: tribal4 triangleCircle2 ( Tribal Triangle And Circle Art Border Four Two ) Specifies an art border consisting of a repeated image of black and white triangles and circles a tribal pattern as follows (showing two repetitions): As well, this art border shall be rotated such that the bottom of the image above is always nearest the text extents. At any corner where two borders of this type intersect, the intersection shall use the following image, rotated appropriately: tribal5 shapes1 ( Tribal Black and White Shapes Art Border Five ) Specifies an art border consisting of a repeating image of a tribal pattern of black-and-white shapes . If the border is on the left or right, this image is as follows (showing two repetitions): If the border is on the top or bottom, this image is as follows (showing two repetitions): At any corner where two borders of this type intersect, the intersection shall use the following image: tribal6 shapes2 ( Tribal Black and White Shapes Art Border Six Two ) Specifies an art border consisting of a repeated image of a tribal pattern of black-and-white shapes as follows (showing two repetitions): At any corner where two borders of this type intersect, the intersection shall use the following image: Also, in response to comment CA-0028 and similar comments, support will be added for custom art borders so that this set will be extensible, allowing users to add their own border art.