Well it had to happen eventually... 

I have reached the age where retirement from my active technical career makes sense. 

As of Dec 31, 2025 I am retired from my job at Owl Cyber Defense where I have been paid for nearly 15 years to work on DFDL and Daffodil. 

With that comes a reduction of my time to work on the DFDL workgroup. I did a small flurry of spec changes recently to get all the current corrections and errata into the document and set it up for getting cross-ref/hyperlinks fixed, and a clickable property index, as those are badly needed. 

I will still be on the DFDL mailing list but I will not be participating as actively, but I can remain acting co-chair until such time as someone else wants to step into the role of chair/co-chair. 

I have to say it has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you for these years on DFDL.