- session lead: Alan Powell
  - 4 people in audience

  - session goal: search for more active participants and
    representation of status

  - item 1: overview of DFDL (see slides)
  
  Q: why no multi dimensional arrays, yet? (AM)
  A: no obvious way in XML to express them, so we have 
     to define a DFDL way, and that is just not done, yet. (DM)
 
  - item 2: progress review (see slides)
  
  Q: do you have tooling?  as you mix XPath 1.0 and 2.0, you might
     get problems... (DM)
  A: not explicitely, but you can use standard xpath tools as long as
     you understand the limitations defined by DFDL (AP)
  Q: maybe better to use full XPath? (DM)
  A: many elements don't make sense, and used subset is hopefully big
     enough to not to confuse people... (AP)
 
  - spec release planned within next 6 months
  - not enough participants!
  - no participation from academic/scientific background anymore

  Q: why not reach out (actively) to scientific data format groups
     (HDF5, CDF, ...) (AM)
  A: yep, should do that, we will not be able to change course
     though (AP)
  A: thats not neccessary, comments don't _have_ to be followed, its
     still good to have them (DM)

  ACTION: Andre: send contacts to Alan. (DONE)

  Q: what about DFDL and data access (query language)? (AM)
  A: out of scope, implementations use XQuery/XPath. (AP)

  Q: what about DFDL and data formats? (AM)
  Q: is that possible? (DM)
  A: out of scope for the moment. (AP)


AP: Alan Powell
DM: David Martin
AM: Andre Merzky