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The SRU listserv is a public list for discussion of SRU, with no connection to OASIS. See http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/community/listserv.html --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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >>