RE: RDDL use in ASIS

[Christopher B Ferris <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>]

And the point being?

Christopher Ferris
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"Hal Lockhart" <hlockhar@bea.com>
wrote on 03/02/2006 05:12:51 PM:

> > | What do others think? As I said, there was a lot of pushback
on
> RDDL.
> > 
> > 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
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