[DDI-SRG] 3 month review for revision

[Wendy Thomas]

The following was sent to Mary and copied to TIC...however I mistyped our 
email.  wlt

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Dear Mary,

In accordance with the process proposed in the May 2008 meeting of the Expert 
Committee, TIC has reviewed the bugs currently noted in Mantis and recommend 
that no revision of the specification take place at this time. We feel that the 
bugs are minor enough that they can easily be incorporated in a revision later 
in the year without ill effect. As each new release requires a namespace change 
we feel that any revisions issued during the first year should provide an 
actual benefit to DDI users.

We do not anticipate a revision until after the Fall workshops at Dagstuhl. 
Both the DDI workshop and the Expert Workshop taking place in early November 
may bring to light additional small enhancements which we would want to 
incorporate. In addition, delaying a revision until late in 2008 or the first 
quarter of 2009 allows users a chance to work with a stable product and TIC a 
chance to carefully review a number of use cases such as data collection 
involving non-survey data sources.

Please inform the Expert Committee and others of this decision,

Wendy Thomas
TIC Chair

Wendy L. Thomas                          Phone: +1 612.624.4389
Data Access Core Director		 Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
Minnesota Population Center              Email: wlt at pop.umn.edu
University of Minnesota
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225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455