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--Ray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Rochkind" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OASIS SRU and CQL, access to most-current drafts


>I believe last I heard the SRU list was a private list that you had to be a 
>member of OASIS and on the SRU committee to access.
>
> If that is no longer the case, then please do send me instructions on how 
> to join this list, I would very much like to see what's going on in SRU. 
> If you want people in the larger world to keep up with this stuff, you 
> have to start doing it in less secretive means. I would very much like to 
> be on the SRU list, but I am not willing to join any committees or be on 
> any conference calls.
>
> Jonathan
>
> Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:
>> Sorry for any confusion.   SRU 2.0 is not a published standard, it is 
>> currently a work in progress.  (Whether you should be writing code to it 
>> is a question that I suggest you take to the SRU list.  The draft is 
>> mature enough now that it is a reasonable question to discuss. There are 
>> people writing code to it.)
>>
>> OASIS wants to be sure that official copies (and they use that term, 
>> "official", whether referring to an approved spec or a draft) reside on 
>> their server.  So the copies at LC must be called  *unofficial copies* of 
>> the draft (or the spec, when it becomes approved).  Again, sorry for the 
>> confusion.
>>
>> --Ray
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jonathan Rochkind" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 3:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OASIS SRU and CQL, access to most-current drafts
>>
>>
>>
>>> Wait, I'm so confused. Is SRU 2.0 actually a published standard, or are 
>>> you just showing us a work in progress that nobody should be writing 
>>> code to yet?
>>>
>>> I'm confused because I thought it was just a draft work in progress, but 
>>> then you talk about official vs unofficial copies... an unofficial copy 
>>> of a draft work in progress that isn't a spec yet anyway?  Very 
>>> confused.
>>>
>>> If I'm planning on writing software to SRU... do you recommend I use the 
>>> (until now not publically available so I didn't have a choice) 
>>> "unofficial" SRU 2.0 thing, or is that still just a draft work in 
>>> progress nobody should be writing software to yet?
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:
>>>
>>>> For those of you who have recently asked about current OASIS drafts of 
>>>> SRU (2.0) and CQL ...
>>>>
>>>> The *official* versions reside at OASIS, but because of confusing (and 
>>>> sometimes inaccessible) links, as well as uncertainty about  status 
>>>> (because of imbedded dates),  we now maintain *unofficial copies* of 
>>>> the most current versions at:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/oasis/current/sru-2-0.doc
>>>> http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/oasis/current/cql.doc
>>>>
>>>> We will continue to maintain copies of the most current version at 
>>>> these URLs.
>>>>
>>>> --Ray
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>