Original sentence: An example is the storage of East Asian names in their original CJK characters, without which they could be ambiguous and of little use for genealogical or historical research.GEDCOM was developed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an aid to genealogical research.However some genealogy software programs incorporate the use of proprietary extensions to the GEDCOM format, which are not always recognized by other genealogy programs.It should be noted that other standards bodies such as the w3c are also slow to release new final standards.Some believe this has contributed to infrequent releases and slow evolution of GEDCOM.The GEDCOM specification is developed and controlled by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The draft of the next version is five years old.There is not a genealogical data format that is developed/controlled by a formal standards body.This will further change the preferred character set from ANSEL to Unicode.Uniform use of Unicode will allow for the usage of international character sets
Edited sentence: Although a draft of the next version was released in 2002, further development appears to have stagnated.Another perceived weakness of the GEDCOM specification is that it has not been adopted by any formal standards body and thus is still developed and controlled by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.As a result of the limitations of the GEDCOM format, some genealogy software incorporates the use of proprietary extensions to the GEDCOM format, which are not always recognized by other genealogy programs.GEDCOM was developed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an aid in their extensive genealogical research.Some believe this fact has contributed to infrequent releases and slow evolution of GEDCOM.This will further change the preferred character set from ANSEL to Unicode, allowing for example the storage of East Asian names in their original CJK characters, without which they could be ambiguous and of little use for genealogical or historical research