[mdx] kicking starting MDX for REEP

[Leif Johansson]

4 apr 2013 kl. 03:11 skrev "John Bradley" <ve7jtb at ve7jtb.com>:

> I agree that breaking backwards computability would be a problem, given that there is deployed software.
> 
> I don't know that anyone is saying they need MDX to immediately be a OASIS standard or IETF RFC.
> 
> When Chad passed the ID over to Ian there were open issues and discussions.
> 
> I took Nicole's  more as a question about funding Ian or someone else to keep it current and Shepard the ongoing discussion which has tapered off rather than trying to drive MDX to a final standard.
> 

my thoughts exactly

> I may have misunderstood.   
> 
> While there is MDX support in some deployed software, I don't think we can say that it is widely used at this point. 
> I know we are likely going to support publishing and consuming MDX at Ping.
> 
> I don't off the top of my head know of anyone that is not developing it or deploying it because it is not final.  
> (I expect Oracle or one of the other big meta-data supporters might but I haven't heard anything from them on it.)
> 
> John B.
> 
> 
> On 2013-04-03, at 7:16 PM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/3/13 6:09 PM, "Leif Johansson" <leifj at sunet.se> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm happy to help work on this and if that means taking on an editor
>>> role then I'll be happy to.
>> 
>> If there are people willing to work on it at IETF that have issues with it
>> they want addressed, then that should happen. I'm fine with that and am
>> willing to take the time needed to ensure no breaking changes occur. I've
>> shipped software for years that was meant to be compliant with the draft,
>> so obviously I can't have that breaking.
>> 
>> -- Scott
>> 
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