I found on wednesday that my talk on "Achieving Distributed Extensibility and Versioning" has been accepted for XML 2004. My friend Lauren Wood has been gently cajoling me to submit a talk to "her" conference for years, and I'm really looking forward to it. This talk is a continuation of the work that I've been doing for a couple years as a TAG member which iscontinuing as an editor of the TAG finding on extensibility and versioning. Early versions where published on xml.com and on BEA's dev2dev site. The work has been gradually increasing in both scope and at the same time refinement of the choices that designers can make. I've even been looking at RelaxNG and RDF/OWL for extensibility and versioning and that has been an interesting learning experience.
The conference should be pretty interesting from an extensibility/versioning perspective. I know that the ever wonderful Eve Maler had proposed a talk on SAML extensibility and versioning and I hope it got accepted. We had talked about potentially combining our talks, but there's just so darned much material we ended up deciding we should go separately. And Dare Obasanjo's talk on Designing Extensible and Resilient XML Formats got accepted so that should be good as well.
It will be interesting to see how our 2 or 3 talks compare - and there could be even more - and what points they agree or disagree on. I doubt that there will be significant disagreements, more likely there will be different areas of exposition as the topic is so large. If there are disagreements, maybe we should organize an extensibility/versioning panel.
It should really interesting to go the show, as I heard last year there were a lot of XML heavyweights doing some serious geeking out and some great talks. Look forward to seeing y'all there.
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