[Odrl-version2] Hello, ODRL!

[Michael.Goulish at contractor.thomson.com]

Hello!

My name is Michael Goulish.  I'm working for Thomson Gale (http://www.galegroup.com/ ) in Farmington Hills, Michigan.  

Thomson Gale is both a publisher and an aggregator of many types of digital content.

I'm a programmer and architect, and one of my current assignments is investigating how we may be able to use ODRL, both externally (between us and our suppliers/customers) and internally (between disparate software systems).

I've had some experience with standards groups, having attended meetings of the W3C DOM WG for a year as an alternate representative of my company at that time (Software AG), so I know something about how standards groups work and how they work together.  

( I once, for example, suggested to the DOM WG that we walk across campus to the room where the XML Schema WG was holding a simultaneous meeting -- and barricade them in their room until they answered our questions.  The suggestion was accepted, and our questions were answered!   (Although we were a much smaller group, we had achieved the element of surprise!) )


My perspectives on ODRL will be those of an implementer, and a member of a large data-sales company.  (  "Large" meaning -- on the order of a billion documents of various kinds. )

Please allow me to apologize in advance for the questions I am sure to ask that seem particularly ignorant and/or not especially clever.



And here's my first request:

Is it possible to get an advance copy of the 2.0 spec?  I'm using the 1.1 spec, and the 2.0 requirements doc that I found on the website -- but I can't find a "draft" copy of 2.0 anywhere.  Do you have one?  (Did I not look in the right place?)   Would you be comfortable releasing it in advance?


And here's my first question:

Is work on 2.0 pretty much complete at this point?  Or is it still very much in flux?  Or somewhere in between?



Thanks very much.  And I'm pleased to meet you-all!

--------------------------------------------------------- Mick .