[DFDL-WG] Introduction and Participation

Fri Jan 30 08:14:42 CST 2009

Dave,

This is very exciting, we welcome your comments and contribution. I always
knew I liked the SBIR program!

Depending on the form they are in you can send questions and comments to the
list, or to either of the co-chairs, Steve Hanson (smh at uk.ibm.com), or
myself.

If you want to use the Microsoft Word comment feature to ask questions and
such, then just edit the document directly and send to one of us
specifically, and we'll figure out how to respond. Some things we can just
answer by fixing the text, others we'll want to discuss on a call as agenda
items. We'll figure it out.

Please email Steve to get an invite to our weekly call. If the time doesn't
work out for you we're open to ideas, but I see from your web site you are
US.ET zone, so perhaps the current time will work.

...mike

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From: dfdl-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:dfdl-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of
Dave Glick
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:04 PM
To: dfdl-wg at ogf.org
Subject: [DFDL-WG] Introduction and Participation

Hi,

I would like to briefly introduce myself. I am currently leading a SBIR
project for the US Navy (SBIR is a program designed to grow small businesses
and emphasizes innovative research and application). A large part of what
I'm working on involves the conversion of arbitrary binary data to XML for
processing and back again. After evaluating several alternatives, I have
come to believe that DFDL is pretty close to perfect for what we need. As
there are no commercially available DFDL parsers available, part of my
project will be to create such a parser (at least for the subset of the
standard relevant to my effort - hopefully building to a complete
implementation at some point). To that end, I will be approaching the
standard from the perspective of an implementation developer and hope to be
able to participate in the working group in whatever ways are useful. The
level of my involvement depends on funding (relatively small right now), but
I should know within a short timeframe (2 months or so) whether I will be
funded for the next several years at a much higher level.

In any case, I am already generating questions and comments for the most
recently published draft (033). Would it be valuable for me to send them to
someone? How else can I be of assistance and participate now and in the
future?

Thanks,

Dave

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