There is a sense of instability in the current definition of the Dublin Core among organisations that want to start implementing. Organisations directly involved in the Dublin Core activity have started implementing in the understanding that the definitions were open to change as a result of their experiences. Other organisations, however, are waiting for a stable situation before they start investing substantial amounts of effort and money in creating Dublin Core metadata.
Examples are government agencies who are bound by public procurement policies.
In relation to this, it was mentioned that standardising DC could help in ISO 9000 compliance. This version will therefore be proposed as input for the standardisation process. It is true that there are still discussions over the semantics of some of the elements in version 1.0. This will lead to DC version 1.1, with the same 15 elements as version 1.0, but with clarified descriptions. The standardisation of version 2.0 that is under construction can be progressed as a new version of the DC standard probably at the end of 1999 at the earliest.