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    WS-RX used the 2.0 form.

    Christopher Ferris
    STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
    email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
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    William Cox <wtcox@comcast.net> wrote on 03/02/2006 10:36:16 PM:

    > 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 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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