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Originally Posted by doctorow
Hi Jon, welcome to the forums.
I am somewhat confused... as a contributor to the IDPF OCF format, you sound rather pessimistic about it today. How come? What happened between you and IDPF?
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Yes, I have my concerns with the direction that IDPF is taking OEBPS. The primary concern is that there is no well-established Roadmap in the new OEBPS Working Group by which to make decisions. Two companies, Adobe and ETI, are ramming through the next version of OEBPS, and decisions are essentially ad-hoc in nature. There's simply no vision of where they want to take OEBPS. I could go on and describe in gory detail all my concerns, but I'll refrain from now. I am thinking of writing a TeleRead blog article to outline them. The list is long (dealing with both OEBPS and the IDPF organization itself), and I may have to write it in a series of articles.
It should be noted that other than the ETI folk, and myself, no one else who was substantively involved with OEBPS Development the last few years is around. Everyone else is pretty much disillusioned by the direction IDPF is taking standards work. Why I still hang around is something I wonder about every day.