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Subject: Re: [oasis-member-discuss] RE: RDDL use in ASIS
Hal - There's also one at a hidden URL at http://rddl.org/rddl2 identified as RDDL 2.0 dated January 18, 2004, with a previous version linked and dated February 18, 2002 at openhealth.org (rather than to the one of the same date at rddl.org!). I haven't tried to compare the versions at this point. Chris Ferris did an update to accommodate OASIS metadata; several TCs are using that version. Don't know whether he started from 1.x or 2.0. bill Hal Lockhart wrote: | What do others think? As I said, there was a lot of pushback onRDDL.I don't recall reading the pushback on RDDL, but "and preference to have an index.html or one of the other default HTML pages" isn't related. RDDL is a mechanism for placing metadata in HTML.Ok, for the record, last summer Bill and I tried to figure out the standards pedigree of RDDL so we could cite it. No sign of it at W3C, not even published as a Note. At www.rddl.org, there is a spec dated Feb 18, 2002, no version specified. I guess this is version 1. At http://www.openhealth.org/RDDL/20040118/rddl-20040118.html there is a spec dated Jan 18, 2004 marked as version 2.0. It describes itself as "a draft". At http://www.tbray.org/tag/rddl/rddl3.html there is a document dated June 1, 2003, with no version. Not sure what version this is. Perhaps Tim's private version? If it is RDDL 3, it is older than RDDL 2.0. All of these contain the sentence "This document has no official standing and has not been considered nor approved by any organization." There are also a number of articles, implementations and even a Wikipedia article (which points to the 2002 version). The 2004 version says "While this document has no official standing, it is the intention of the TAG to seek guidance from the W3C membership and the larger community on the question of whether and how to progress this document and the use of RDDL." As far as I can see there has been no work done on RDDL in 2 years. Will the real RDDL please stand up? If this is as great stuff as you all say it is, can't somebody put in enough time to push it thru an OASIS TC or publish it as a TAG Finding? If I put a normative reference to something with a pedigree like this in an OASIS Committee Spec and submitted it for member approval, I would end up with a bunch of arrows sticking out of me. Hal _______________________________________________________________________ Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php |
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