[DFDL-WG] DFDL v1.0 Specification is Final "Recommendation" - Fwd: [wg-all] New document published for DFDL-WG, #240

[Mike Beckerle]

In case this announcement slipped by anyone......

This is the formal announcement that DFDL v1.0 Spec. is now a full
"Recommendation" from the OGF.

That's the term OGF uses for full standards, i.e., that are no longer in
"proposed" status.

The announcement to *wg-all at ogf.org* <wg-all at ogf.org> doesn't say it's a
full recommendation. It just says "new document", but if you follow the
link (*https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/documents/documents*
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ogf.org_ogf_doku.php_documents_documents&d=DwMFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=AJa9ThEymJXYnOqu84mJuw&m=5YQSSJtmVFsMF0RokpiZG72GJ2jOL3TRVhD3skDoyAA&s=DazBfZq3sUGElKLCfrF4T5P3CB8gmJKbT9Vmu2Ga8PY&e=>)
to the list of OGF documents, you see that GFD.240 is the top row, and has
the 3 important little letters "REC" next to this document. Those indicate
the status as a "RECommendation".

So v1.0 is official, done.

Congratulations and many thanks to all who have been contributing so much
to making this happen for so long.

It's kind of hard to imagine that I have been working (off and on) on DFDL
since 2001, so 20 years. Given that I turned 60 this year, that's 1/3 of my
life and 1/2 of my career. My full time job became DFDL only in the 2011
time frame, but that's 10 years of full time (mostly) on DFDL or
DFDL-related work.

Steve Hanson is the other co-chair of the DFDL Workgroup at OGF, working
(off and on) on DFDL since 2004 with a full-time stretch from 2011 to 2015.

The contributors to this workgroup, along with the co-chairs assembled
together the collective knowledge from many data integration systems and
tools, and collective knowledge of a huge amount of data experience to
synthesize the DFDL standard.

I believe to have real impact on the computing industry today, you have to
have an open standard, long-term commercial commitment, commercial
adoption/product, and an open-source implementation as well, along with
enough time and attention to actually finish the work. OGF provided a
patient forum for the open-standard to come to fruition. Being a small
organization OGF was actually perfect for DFDL given the long time it took
to complete the work. A larger standards body might have forced things to
happen too fast, or the whole process might have been derailed by too many
participants.  IBM provided the commercial support and the first
production-ready implementation called IBM DFDL, used in several of
its key products,
and the US DoD funded several core contributors to work on what has become
the Open Source Apache Daffodil implementation. All these implementations
were hard to build, and took real time and effort from many engineers. They
cover very different data formats that improved the standard by making sure
it was far more comprehensive than prior-generation technologies.

The official PDF of the standard (er "Recommendation") is
*https://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.240.pdf*
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Mike Beckerle
OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair
Apache Daffodil PMC Chair
Owl Cyber Defense - Principal Engineer
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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: *Greg Newby* <*gbnewby at petascale.org* <gbnewby at petascale.org>>
Date: Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 9:48 AM
Subject: [wg-all] New document published for DFDL-WG, #240
To: All WG <*wg-all at ogf.org* <wg-all at ogf.org>>


Dear OGF community,

A new document has been published by OGF. All OGF documents may be found
here:
  *https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/documents/documents*
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This document was provided by the Data Format Description Language Working
Group (DFDL-WG).

*GFD-R-P.240: Data Format Description Language (DFDL) v.1.0 Specification*
Authors: Michael J. Beckerle, Owl Cyber Defense/Tresys and Stephen M.
Hanson, IBM

Abstract: This document provides a definition of a standard Data Format
Description Language (DFDL). This language allows description of text,
dense binary, and legacy data formats in a vendor-neutral declarative
manner. DFDL is an extension to the XML Schema Description Language (XSD).

This document obsoletes GFD #207 and GFD #174.

  - Greg Newby OGF Standards Editor
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