Stabilisation by discussion and consensus about features introduced with 0.5. Portability across networks using SAX may be one concern. This release will try a smarter DTD called EdiLean. Stabilisation by disscussion and consensus about the XML DTDs introduced with 0.7. It's important for me that authentication and authorisation be provided before I call it final 1.0.
Most messages contain valuable information for running a business.
Only cryptography on a document level would preserve authentication and authorisation once a message is stored on a disk. The beauty of this aproach is that the secure document is still well-formed and valid, and of the same document type. I hope that a consensus has been found in this direction, so the DTDs won't change in further releases. Perl is a perfect language for prototyping, but profiling and using a low level language like C for hot spots will be necessary to handle large batches. The same applies to the text tables produced during Bootstrap.