MNX Proposal now Available [via Music Notation Community Group]

I am pleased to share with you an initial draft of a proposal for MNX. We hope
this will be a useful starting point for the next revision of this group's music
notation standard. We look forward to fruitful discussions on this list, as well
as in person in Frankfurt for those who are able to join us in April.

This has been a long time in preparation -- far too long, I am sure -- and I
have little by way of excuse, even accounting for the unrelated work on my
plate. However, this pause in output has at least given me the chance to think
about the ideas presented here.

The phrase "starting point" is appropriate, as this document is still in a
formative state. While some of the solutions may survive to a later stage of
work, right now its purpose is to stimulate discussion by placing something
concrete in front of us to examine and debate. Indeed, the co-chairs are not
agreed on every element of the proposal, and much less would we expect agreement
from the community group at large.

To that end, the document also seeks to capture conflicting points of view and
alternate possibilities, which are noted as issues called out within the
proposal. Rather than using specification language, the proposal relies on
examples, to better allow experimentation with various answers to problems.

You can find this document at:

https://w3c.github.io/mnx/overview/

The use cases formerly on the wiki have also been moved from the wiki, to better
track their concordance with the emerging description of MNX:

https://w3c.github.io/mnx/use-cases/

After an initial round of mailing list discussion, we will later move to using
Github issues to track various points. The github repo is at
https://github.com/w3c/mnx/ for version control details.

For now, the chairs look forward to some vigorous and positive exchanges of
views on the public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org list! Please do use this
contributor list for all discussion, in order to affirm that your contributions
conform to the W3C IP policy.



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