Note that the absence of any objections to the various proposals on the table for reorganising our mode of working will be construed as tacit approval. I have no quibble with this overall philosophy. Although the draft is visible through the Web on the URL I posted last time, it is not copied to the IUCr mirror servers nor referenced from any other public web document. It might, however, be prudent for me to add a disclaimer to the files in case they are stumbled upon inadvertently.
Comments are welcome.
Lack of comments will be taken as tacit approval. I hope to look at the parallel issues for DDL2 dictionaries, and hope that we can have some useful discussions at Rutgers next week. There are also some incipient proposals for a revision control system, for mapping protocols between namespaces and for extending DDL to allow dynamic editing of dictionary-based attributes. If we explore these in detail, we shall in effect be specifying a toolkit for dictionary evolution and maintenance, so I think the terminology is the right one. This is an extremely useful exercise, and thanks are due to David.