- From: Gregory R. White <gwhite@stanford.edu>
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 23:19:55 +0000
- To: Taki Kamiya <tkamiya@us.fujitsu.com>
- CC: "Gregory R. White" <gwhite@stanford.edu>, "public-exi@w3.org" <public-exi@w3.org>
Yes, I like this too. If it’s really true that you now have an idiom (is that the right word?) for efficient semi-structured interchange then, great idea! Good luck. Greg > On Oct 21, 2016, at 4:54 PM, Takuki Kamiya <tkamiya@us.fujitsu.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Since the start of the working group, the focus of this WG has been on how to > make XML interchange more efficient between applications. We will further > continue this effort by making improvements to what we have achieved as EXI > and its related specifications. > > As we informed the audience of this public mailing list in August > (please see [1]), the WG is working on making JSON exchange more efficient > by applying EXI to JSON. We are recently also exploring the idea of applying > EXI to CSS and JavaScript. There are more ideas on the table to apply EXI to > HTML5, MathML, etc. (see [2]) > > Reviewing how best position these ongoing work in relation to our current > charter [3], we started to fiddle with the idea of reflecting the widening scope > of our work to the working group name. > > The Working Group agreed that it should seek to change the name of the > working group to better represent what we want to achieve while preserving > the acronym "EXI". Changing the acronym would seem more difficult. Among > the causes for the difficulty is that the WG page URL [4], for example, contains it. > Therefore, we do not propose to change the acronym, and the WG will be still > called as "EXI" WG. > > The plan is that the acronym "EXI" will stand for "Efficient Extensible Interchange" > instead of "Efficient XML interchange." This change is to indicate EXI is not > only for XML, all while causing no changes to the acronym. > > If you have any comments or questions, please let us know as soon as possible. > > Thank you, > > [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-exi/2016Aug/0004.html > [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-exi/2016Sep/0001.html > [3] http://www.w3.org/XML/2015/05/exi-charter.html > [4] http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/ > >
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