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The notes from the first day of the Leipzig ISO meeting have now been posted. Here’s a quick summary of the status of each of the items discussed.

XTM 2.1

The first set of notes deals with XTM 2.1, and basically the XTM 2.1 proposal was passed by the committee. A few very minor additions were made, such as the decision to apply for a registered MIME-type for XTM, but the substance of the proposal is as it was when Lars Heuer first made it.

The process of applying for an XTM MIME-type has started, with a brief discussion on the ietf-types mailing list, and the application has been submitted as an Internet-Draft. So far there has been no reply to the application (which is normal).

The first implementation of XTM 2.1 is already released, in Mappa’s tm.reader.xtm version 0.1.5.

However, it will take a while before XTM 2.1 becomes an official ISO standard. The editors are currently requesting that SC34 start the revision process of ISO 13250-3 (which is XTM). This will probably be approved at the Stockholm meeting in March, and the XTM 2.1 draft will then go out for a 3-month CD ballot. After that it will go through the FCD, FDIS, and IS stages as quickly as possible.

TMQL

The second set of notes is about the new proposed TMQL path language. The main thing to take away here is that the proposal met a generally positive reception, but that many open questions remain.

The next step is for the editors to do some editing, and come back with a more complete proposal based on the feedback they received.

TMCL

The third set of notes is about TMCL and the decisions made on it. The decisions made were mostly of the “we won’t do this”-type or minor extensions. A new draft should follow before too long. (The Seattle notes were delayed, but are now also available.)