Diligent LIXI-watchers will have noticed that a substantial
number of change requests have been submitted for consideration
in the CAL 1.3 release over and above the changes submitted
by the Settlements Working Group. While it is great to have
this level of input these additional change requests will require
significantly more work from the Vocabulary Working Group in
order to ensure that CAL continues to meet member’s needs.
As a consequence the LIXI Board has approved the following
development and release strategy:
The release of CAL 1.3 will be delayed.
In the interim the Vocab WG will address the settlements
work first and will generate a Settlement Instruction Schema
that can be used by developers and/or settlement agents to
begin work on CAL-compliant settlements systems while the
rest of the work on CAL 1.3 is completed.
Change requests will be accepted for CAL 1.3 up to COB
January 30, 2004. All LIXI members are invited to contribute
and are reminded that this may be their last chance to change
CAL for some time.
A Request For Comments draft of CAL 1.3 is scheduled for
release no later than March 1, 2004.
CAL 1.3 is scheduled for release in early April 2004, with
the precise date dependent upon the feedback received from
the RFC process.
It is intended that CAL 1.3 will be released both as DTD’s
(as has been the case with earlier releases) and as an XSD schema,
which should allow us to move towards a significantly “tighter”
standard with less ambiguity. In conjunction with the “enhanced
backchannel” and commissions work already well underway
this should mean that we can all look forward to some major
steps forward in the practicality and functionality of LIXI-based
systems in the coming year.
