Re: xCIQ v3 status

[Ram Kumar <kumar.sydney@gmail.com>]

Hi Anthony,

Many thanks for your email. Yes, we are in the process of releasing
V3.0 of CIQ specs. Yes, these specs. will not be backward compatible
with V2.0. However, it will support all the capabilities of V2.0. We
expect to have V3.0 of xNAL and xCIL by June 2005. My concern is I am
not sure how you are going to follow our progress. Do not use the NZ
xNAL version. What we can do is once we have a draft version of the
specs. ready (hopefully by end of this month), we will copy it to you
also. In case you do not hear from us, please send a reminder email to
me and I will make sure it is done.

Regards,

Ram
Chair, OASIS CIQ TC

On 5/10/05, Jones, Antony (A.J.) <ajones25@ford.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> We're currently examining the feasibility of using the xCIQ standards
> internally for our CRM applications. While the v2 standards do seem to meet
> our requirements, I notice from the mail list archives that v3 is being
> developed. I've also looked at the NZ xNAL v3-derived standards - which seem
> a step forward from xAL v2 in ease of implementation (switching from
> hierarchical to sequential structures). These changes are non-backwards
> compatible, so I'm concerned we may later incur significant rework if we
> adopt the v2 standard now.
> 
> Ford's membership of OASIS has lapsed, (though I believe we are considering
> re-joining), so I have not been able to download the drafts from the TC site
> or follow/participate in the discussions. Can you please give me an
> indication of the timeline to the final release of v3, and if there are
> expected to be significant changes between now and then?
> 
> Many thanks, 
> Antony Jones 
> Technical Architect, ADS Enterprise Architecture, Ford Motor Company 
> (8-718-4219(int) (+44 1268 704219(ext) *GB-40/259