Re: [seul-edu] SIF Specification v1.0

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

Ian Thomas wrote:
> 
> The SIF preliminary Specification v 1.0 is available at
> 
> http://www.schoolsinterop.org/specification.asp
> 
> SIF is an interoperability standard for K-12 instructional and
> administrative environments.

We looked at this a while ago, and Bruno and I had some discussion with
the fellow from MistyCity Software about how we could participate in
it.  It seems that if you aren't a commercial software vendor or a big
institutional education group you aren't invited.  What we saw had a
ways to go before it would be useful; maybe they've worked hard and
caught up to Bruno's EduML by now.  I'm concerned that Microsoft's heavy
involvement in SIF may taint it from a vendor neutrality standpoint. 
Bruno, would you consider looking at this again and giving us your
opinion?

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