Present:

Bob McGrath

Tara Talbott

Steve Hanson

Geoff Judd

Martin Westhead

Mike Beckerle

1. Face-2-face

We are looking at arranging a F2F in San Jose, Chicago or Boston on the weeks of 13^th Feb or 28^th Feb.

2. Context document

This was generally well received. Several issues were raised:

• “DFDL Document” should be changed in the document to “DFDL Schema”

• Term for describing the input is undecided candidates include: feed, source, stream

• “Annotations Schema for DFDL” is used for the Schema document for the DFDL annotations

• The term for the code to write data out was discussed candidates include:  Unparser, Serializer or Writer

• There was some confusion about the fact that the concept of “Context” was just about value store. This should be made more explicit.

• Should point out that a “stacked discipline is being followed” i.e. local contexts pop on (and off)

• We re-opened the discussion as to whether annotations be allowed on types. (MDW: I believe that the semantics that I am developing here make sense for annotations anywhere in the document)

• Simplify the distinction between “properties” and “variables”. Everything should be refered to as a “Context value” or (equivalently a “property”) distinctions between predefined properties and user-defined properties should be based on name-space

• There is a technical issue with establishing namespaces in annotations (and indeed the context) which needs to be addressed.