Link-check mystery and Transition request

All,

FYI, the link-check mystery is resolved and this will go out shortly.

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The WebCGM Working Group requests approval to publish the First Public
Working Draft and Last Call Working Draft for following Working Draft:


1. Document title:
    WebCGM 2.0

2. Document URI:
    http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/drafts/20060608/

The URI cited above is for the most recent version of the specification
as of 08 June 2006 but is dated 23 June 2006 in anticipation of publication
then.

That file is set up to be published by moving it to:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-webcgm20-20060623/

3.  Proposed shortname: webcgm20:
        http://www.w3.org/TR/webcgm20/

4. Estimated publication date:
       Tentative date is June 23rd 2006.

5. Record of the group's decision to advance to LC:

The WebCGM WG resolved to request publication of this document
as Last Call WD during its regularly scheduled teleconference on 08 June 2006:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webcgm-wg/2006Jun/0071.html


6. The draft document abstract and SOTD are expected to read:

Abstract

WebCGM — first published (1.0) in 1999 followed by a second (errata)
release in 2001 — unifies potentially diverse approaches to CGM
utilization in Web document applications, and therefore represents a
significant interoperability agreement amongst major users and
implementers of the ISO CGM standard. WebCGM finds significant
application especially in technical illustration, electronic
documentation, and geophysical data visualization, amongst other
application areas.

WebCGM 2.0 adds a DOM (API) specification for programmatic access to
WebCGM objects, and a specification of an XML Companion File (XCF)
architecture, for externalization of non-graphical metadata. WebCGM 2.0,
in addition, builds upon and extends the graphical and intelligent
content of WebCGM 1.0, delivering functionality that was forecast for
WebCGM 1.0, but was postponed in order to get the standard and its
implementations to users expeditiously.

The design criteria for WebCGM aim at a balance between graphical
expressive power on the one hand, and simplicity and implementability on
the other. A small but powerful set of standardized metadata elements
supports the functionalities of hyperlinking and document navigation,
picture structuring and layering, and enabling search and query of
WebCGM picture content.

Status of this Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of
current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical
report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at
http://www.w3.org/TR/.

This is the First Public Working Draft and a Last Call Working Draft of
"WebCGM 2.0".

This document was developed by the WebCGM Working Group, part of the
Graphics Activity. The Working Group expects to advance this Working
Draft to Recommendation Status.

This specification is based, in large part, on a work by the same name,
WebCGM 2.0, an OASIS Committee Specification submitted to W3C as WebCGM
2.0 Submission. This Member Submission is related to the previous W3C
work on WebCGM 1.0, and draws on experiences with that format from
implementors and users over five years. This Working Draft incorporates
feedback and discussion following the Submission.

The W3C Membership and other interested parties are invited to review
the document and send comments through 10 August 2006. Comments must be
sent to the public-webcgm@w3.org mailing list (public archive). Use "[LC
Review]" in the subject line of your email.

Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C
Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or
obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite
this document as other than work in progress.

This document was produced by a group operating under the 5 February
2004 W3C Patent Policy. The group does not expect this document to
become a W3C Recommendation. This document is informative only. W3C
maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection
with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions
for disclosing a patent. An individual who has actual knowledge of a
patent which the individual believes contains Essential Claim(s) must
disclose the information in accordance with section 6 of the W3C Patent
Policy.
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Best,
Lofton Henderson

Received on Friday, 9 June 2006 13:51:14 UTC