[art] Re: use of Emojis in Internet Standards

[Ted Hardie <[e-mail]>]

Hi Robert,

Assuming you are planning to publish internet-drafts, you may wish to
review the information at https://authors.ietf.org, specifically
https://authors.ietf.org/en/diagrams.  The permitted types are ASCII art
and svg, which I believe will make your intended inclusion of these
difficult.

regards,

Ted Hardie


On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 1:41 PM Robert Viragh <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Dear ART Working Group and mailing list:
>
> Thank you for your work on Internet standards which helps with
> interoperability and makes the Internet possible, and better for everyone.
>
> We are developing an Internet standard (a draft specification is attached)
> which is currently undergoing cryptographic peer review as to its
> characteristics.  Our implementers are saying that the specification of
> Emojis presents extreme difficulties.
>
> We would like to know whether you think it can be appropriate to include
> Emojis in an Internet Standard, and whether it has widespread compatibility
> with Windows, Mac, and Linux, and Android, iOS, and Windows Phone devices.
>
> We thought that our table of emojis would be simple and straightforward to
> implement:
>
> [image: image.png]
> (our proposed table of emojis).  We chose the emojis to be widely
> compatible and easily recognizable.
>
> Our implementers are having trouble matching them.
>
> Here are our questions:
> 1. Are there a set of emojis that are considered widely compatible?
> 2. Do you think it is appropriate to include it as normative in an
> Internet standard?
> 3. How should emojis be specified in an Internet standard?
>
> In terms of ergonomics, we have found that this ergonomic presentation
> makes it up to 75% faster to discern differences.  You can try this for
> yourself in this ergonomic comparison tool:
>
> https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/05e8b21b-fb31-4c07-83e2-5c8138c25670 (for
> fast discernment, you can also focus on the first four words and checksum
> at the end, before moving on to comparing the whole hash).
>
> Therefore we would like to continue to keep emojis in our Internet
> Standard as we go through the standards process.
>
> We welcome all thoughts you may have regarding emojis in Internet
> standards.
>
> Best regards,
> Robert Viragh
> State of Utopia
>
>
>
>
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