April 7, 2002
Therefore the standard is now frozen at its current version
(2.0.3). This means that there will be no more changes this year. Next
winter we will evaluate the standard and the implementation to see
what needs to be changed. The timeframe will be:
If you are a software developer then we would be very pleased if you
would consider using the Data Standard and tell us your experiences
with it.
If you otherwise are interested, please take a look at the standards
and tell us your meaning. Send your comments to one of the following:
February 24, 2002
During the last 4 months there has been hectic activity among software
developers to specify and implement this standard and the work has not
ended yet. But now it has come so far that we feel it safe to make it
public.
Because of the many major changes - in fact a total rewrite - the new
version has been labelled 2.0. A major change is that all the
standard elements have been assembled in a single Document Type
Declaration (DTD) file.
The most pressing tasks right now is getting practical experience with
implementing and using the standard. This will be done during the next
few months partly in the Swedish OLA Project and partly in the World
Cup Result Project.
If you are a software developer then we would be very pleased if you
would consider using the Data Standard and tell us your experiences
with it.
If you otherwise are interested, please take a look at the standards
and tell us your meaning. Send your comments to one of the following:
IOF Interface Standard frozen
During the last month and a half no changes have been necessary to the
data standard. It seems that we have reached a point where stability
is more important than rapid reaction to new suggestions. The
stability is especially needed to give the implementing software
vendors time to finish the implementation.
We hop that especially the World Cup 2002 Result Project will provide
valueable experience as this makes heavy use of the standard to
collect results from the different World Cup events.
Second IOF Interface Standard
As expected the practical experiences with the first standard (version
1.0) made it clear that it was inadequate. Especially two projects
initiated the development of the second version:
The former project is widely known as it has been under way for some
years and in fact also was the driving force behind the development of
version 1.0.
The latter project was started in the summer 2001 with the task of
making a solution for web casting the results from the World Cup
events in 2002 through a common web site. For this to succeed it was
paramount to have a common exchange format that the different
organizers - and their software - could use to send results to the
common web server. As a result of this project's initiation the IT
Commission asked the World Cup organizers and software developers for
their cooperation and at this point nearly all have agreed to
participate. This means that the leading software developers have
committed themselves to the IOF Interface Standard.
Also the lack of a message standard, i.e. a standard for the lists to
be send between the software elements, that has been missing since the
initiation of this project in 1998 has been addressed. Some of the up
to 17 different software interfaces that were found in the 1998 Oslo
meeting have been included in the standard.
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