After the announcement that
GCA/IDEAlliance will stop to support XTM (XML Topic Maps), the project is
looking for a new hosting organization and the names of OASIS, TEI-c and KnoW
have been the first to be mentioned.
Announced
by Paul Conn, GCA Vice President and IDEAlliance Chief Technology Officer, the
decision appears to be motivated by the independent "business model" of the XTM project, which made
it difficult for IDEAlliance to be involved in the project or to benefit
from it:
Under the current model,
IDEAlliance has none of these responsibilities [project
management, administration, budget and marketing] and therefore neither
provides nor receives much value, and we believe our resources can be better
directed elsewhere
Even a least one observer, Patrick Durusau, has
suggested
that the decision might have been guided by personal matters:
I will refrain from
commenting on the almost certain origin of this arbitrary decision by
IDEAlliance and the childish petulance that urged it.
It seems
likely that Steve Newcomb and Michel Biezunski, both influential GCA members
and founders of the XTM project, were the main cement that bound the XTM project and GCA together -- and
that after their departure from XTM the two pieces had no more reasons to stick
together.
Other
stories:
|[Mike Champion:]
> I'm confused about topicmaps.org, topicmaps.net, the
> original ISO topic map ... |
I'm not at all shocked ... I was just wondering if there is a larger issue beyond politics and perso ... |
[Mike Champion]
> is this ... or what?
Paradigm shifts are, by definition, never free of frictio ... |
I'm confused about topicmaps.org, topicmaps.net, the original ISO topic maps activity, and this anno ... |