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Re: The quest for tentative approval.

Herb,

I'm swamped at the moment with a review committee and interviews for new
employees.  I will be very pleased if you will make the detailed contact
with the IUCr implied in your note.  I frankly had thought that you had
done it after our last exchange, but know how those things go.

Several of us at synchrotron sources (Daresbury, Stanford, Brookhaven)
have agreed to take roughly the end of calendar 2000 as the point at which
we will start to write only CBF (binary imgCIF) files.  Two notes:

1. We have firm assurances that the software vendors will be able to read
these files, but 

2. This will depend upon us being able to give them complete data sets
well in advance that have been produced with this format. 

3. I strongly recommend that we begin to produce files only with no
compression applied.

Sincerely,
Bob

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On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Herbert J. Bernstein wrote:

> >From discussions with I. David Brown at the ACA meeting and between David
> and Bob Sweet, it appears that it is long past time for our formal
> submission of the draft CBF/imgCIF dictionary to COMCIFS for tentative
> approval.  There was some discussion on this list after Bob Sweet said:
> 
> " ...unless there are strenuous objections from the readers of this
> bulletin board, in the next few days we will submit what we have done to
> COMCIFS for 'tentative
> approval'."
> 
> There was some discussion, but there seeming to be no strenuous objection,
> with this message, we are hereby formally submitting the materials at:
> 
>   http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/software/CBF/
> 
> for consideration by COMCIFS, and in particular are submitting the draft
> CBF extensions dictionary version 0.6.2 at:
> 
>   http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/software/CBF/doc/cbfext98.html
> 
> for consideration, along with the explanatory materials at
> 
>   http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/software/CBF/doc/cbf_definition_rev.html
> 
> We hope to receive comments, corrections and suggestions for changes.  They
> are most welcome.  Please direct copies of such messages to this list
> (imgcif-l@bnl.gov), so
> that everyone may participate in improving the draft.  In responding to
> such comments, we will make great efforts to maintain upwards
> compatability.  All comments and suggestions, even those which might imply
> drastic changes, will be given careful consideration, but except for
> correcting minor typos and improving comments, we will try not to withdraw
> tokens or create conflicts with the meanings of the currently proposed
> tokens.  New, non-conflicting tokens will be proposed when major changes
> are needed.
> 
> We also hope to make changes to the current API, but again, we will make
> great efforts to maintain upwards compatibility.
> 
> 
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