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@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 Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL WG Co-Chair | CTO | Oco, Inc. Tel: 781-810-2100 | 504 Totten Pond Road, Waltham MA 02451 | <mailto:mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com> mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com _____ From: dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Glick Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:04 PM To: dfdl-wg@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 --- David Glick | <mailto:dglick@dracorp.com> dglick@dracorp.com | 703.299.0700 x212 Data Research and Analysis Corp. | <http://www.dracorp.com> www.dracorp.com