going forward

[Peter Nugent <Peter Nugent Sun COM>]

thanks Danilo for setting this up.

I'm on holidays for the next 2 weeks (yippee!!!) so here are some 
parting thoughts on the cldr and icu debate :

- icu is working towards adding more apis to cldr data (they announced 
this in icu 3.4 release notes the other day) and I think it probably 
already offers us most or all of what we require of cldr.
- cldr data is stored in xml and has a fairly complex inheritance and 
aliasing mechanism which needs to be properly understood in order to 
have reliable data. Anyone thinking of developing their own cldr api 
needs to bear this in mind and also needs to come up with their own 
storage format which would possibly end up copying icu's data structure 
anyway.

regards
Peter