ZedNext Timeline

This document summarizes milestones in the Z39.86 Part A and Part B revision cycles.

Z39.86 Part A (Authoring and Interchange) Timeline

ZedAI Milestones
Phase	Status	Date	Deliverable
First Public Working Draft	DONE	2009-05-28	First early preview working draft
Second Public Working Draft		2009-12-23	Second working draft, nearing feature completeness
RC Working Draft		2010-03-09	Feature Complete Spec + Profiles + Features after this release, bugfixes and prose polish is all that remains
First public RC		2010-03-31	Will be followed by submission to NISO as Draft Standard for Trial Use as soon as all dependencies with ZedDist are resolved. after this release, further edits and changes will be done as needed as Part B interaction patterns become more clear the spec may rest in this state until Part B catches up (which pushes Part A release to 2011), or be released as a formal standard prior to Part A validation tools development starts XSLT suite development starts

The process for development of Part B is divided in two distinct phases:

Phase 1 (December 2009 to April 2010) which focuses on getting the core profiles to a testable/reviewable state excluding the the video and forms features. This phase also yields an early outline of the specification.
Phase 2 (April 2010 to December 2010) which focuses on feature development, primarily the video and forms features, in parallell to finalization of the core specification.
Note: we have an explicit dependency on the EPUB 2010 revision cycle, all dates specified below are assuming that the EPUB 2010 revision closes before end 2010

ZedDist Milestones
Phase	Date	Deliverable
Inception Phase End	2009-12-22	Publishing of a strawman agreed to be mature enough to move on to draft manufacturing
First Public Working Draft	2010-05-15 (tentative, depending on IDPF revision)	First Public Working Draft, which includes: A skeleton/outline specification Schemas, Samples and Spec documentation for the core profiles and the core document types of those features Definition of extension points for features, but no concrete implementation requried (forms and video feature are developed for second WD) Excludes Epub in this phase
Second Public Working Draft	2010-09-17 (tentative, depending on IDPF revision)	Second Public Working Draft, which includes: A finalized draft specification The forms and video features Adding the Epub spec Refinements and fixes to the core profile definitions made in WD1 Addition of peripheral document types to core spec (annotations, semantic overlay)
Draft Standard for Trial Use	2010-12-17 (tentative, depending on IDPF revision)	Submission to NISO as Draft Standard for Trial Use