[topicmapmail] News from the ISO Topic Maps committee

[Steve Pepper]

The ISO Topic Maps committee had a very productive four days of
meetings last week in Amsterdam. WG3's recommendations, accepted
in toto by SC34, are available at

  http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0625.htm

Pointers from that document will take you to all related relevant
documents.

Six ballots took place in the period leading up to this meeting.
The results were as follows:

  13250-2 Topic Maps -- Data Model (TMDM): FCD ballot passed
  13250-3 Topic Maps -- XML Syntax (XTM): FCD ballot passed
  13250-4 Topic Maps -- Canonicalization (CXTM): FCD ballot passed
  13250-5 Topic Maps -- Reference Model (TMRM): CD ballot failed

  18048 Topic Maps Query Language (TMQL): CD ballot passed
  19756 Topic Maps Constraint Language (TMCL): CD ballot passed

What this means is that Parts 2-4 of the revised 13250 are very
nearly finished. The final ballot is likely to take place in
November.

Steve

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Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net>
Chief Strategy Officer, Ontopia
Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3
Editor, XTM (XML Topic Maps 1.0)