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Re: [ddlm-group] Moving forward with DDLm

Dear Colleagues,

   While I believe that DDLm as currently proposed is, like
CIF2, incomplete and insufficient to serve its intended
purpose, I believe it is a reasonable base upon which to
build what is needed to, for example, support imgCIF.
Therefore, I do not object James Hester's proposed plan
of action, so we will have something stable to work from
as a base.

   Regards,
     Herbert

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  Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science
    Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121
         Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769

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On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, James Hester wrote:

> Dear DDLm group,
>
> Now that the CIF2 syntax specification is well on the way to approval,
> our energies can be turned towards the remaining pieces in the puzzle,
> which are DDLm and dREL.
>
> DDLm and dREL are the result of at least a decade of development and
> consultation. Given the lack of objections to the DDLm specification
> within this group, I am satisfied that the draft of DDLm that is
> currently posted is sufficiently well-developed to serve as a version
> 0.99 document that can be accepted by COMCIFS under its normal
> dictionary acceptance procedure.   This group would then become the
> DDLm dictionary maintenance group (subject to formal COMCIFS
> approval).  Meanwhile, work needs to be done to produce DDLm versions
> of current DDL1 and DDL2 dictionaries; this may expose some minor
> flaws in the DDLm specification which I believe can be dealt with as
> DDLm updates.  Once a few such DDLm dictionaries are ready, we should
> then be ready to release a 1.0 DDLm specification together with
> accompanying dictionaries.  I note here that David Brown has already
> prepared a draft Core dictionary in DDLm based on Nick and Syd's
> version.
>
> Therefore, please indicate if you agree to submit DDLm and dREL to
> COMCIFS for approval without further discussion on this list.  In any
> case, if no objections are received by the end of the year (the expiry
> of the term for objections to the CIF2 specification) I will submit
> both DDLm and dREL to COMCIFS for approval in the New Year.
>
> James.
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