Re: XML Extensibility and versioning

At 11:25 PM 7/24/2004 -0400, david_marston@us.ibm.com wrote:
>[...]
>Ideally, a WG would issue a versioning plan along with (or incorporated
>into) their first working draft of their version 1.0, so that interested
>parties can comment on the adequacy of the plan at an early enough stage.
>However, the WG may not follow that plan in the future, and the TAG or
>some other representative of pan-WG wisdom may change the versioning
>technology or policy before 2.0 comes out. Therefore, I think its hard
>for SpecGL to get very specific about versioning.

"Pubrules" has apparently already reserved the topic of versioning for 
itself.  See #3 at:

http://www.w3.org/2004/02/02-pubrules.html#head

Apparently these rules are not enforced, however.  For example, SVG 1.2 
contains a huge amount of new functionality, which is being added to SVG 1.1.

-Lofton.

Received on Monday, 9 August 2004 15:00:42 UTC