🚀 go-pugleaf

Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
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|   In a recent Communications of the ACM article about HyTime (a
|   Hypertext/ Hypermedia extension to SGML) I read that it will
|   become a final ISO standard in April. Does anybody know more about
|   what is going on with HyTime? (My favorite indicator, Erik
|   Naggum's .signature still says DIS :-)

I'm tempted to post only the .signature...

The voting on DIS 10744 closed on April 10th, and ISO is a sturdy
organization, so I didn't expect any miracles.  But miracles do
happen.  From the Norwegian IT Standards Secretariat's director, Ernst
Kristiansen, I got the name of the right man in ISO, and Keith Brennan
of the ISO Information Technology Task Force (ITTF) was very helpful
and told me on the phone just now that there were "absolutely no
problems" with the progression from DIS to IS.

18 P members voted, all APPROVE, including Australia, Austria, Brazil,
Canada, China, Denmark, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States.  (Hmmm,
that's 17; I must have missed one in my notes from the phone call, but
it isn't Germany.)

ISO 10744 has yet to be published as such, which will require official
endorsement by a meeting of the HyTime Special Working Group in JTC
1/SC 18/WG 8, which takes place the last week of this month in Copen-
hagen, and a plenary meeting of SC 18, which takes place early next
month in Stockholm.  Keith indicated that we should expect to see the
final text in no more than two months.

I'm very pleased by this development.

Best regards,
</Erik>
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Erik Naggum       |  +47-295-0313     |  ISO 8879 SGML     |  Memento,
Naggum Software   |   "fuzzface"      |  ISO 10744 HyTime  |  terrigena.
Boks 1570, Vika   | <erik@naggum.no>  |  JTC 1/SC 18/WG 8  |  Memento,
0118 OSLO, NORWAY | <enag@ifi.uio.no> |  SGML UG SIGhyper  |  vita brevis.