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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone. The X3D Standards working group continues working quietly and persistently in the background.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dick Puk and I are happy to announce availability of an updated draft for X3D 4.0 XML Encoding.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Extensible 3D (X3D) encodings — Part 1: XML encoding<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>ISO/IEC 19776-1:202x<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>https://web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19776-1v4.0-WD1<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Screen capture PDF of today’s cover page attached<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All document changes to this Working Draft (WD) ISO Standard are visible to Web3D Consortium members in github version control:<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>https://github.com/Web3DConsortium/X3D/tree/master/ISO-IEC19776/ISO-IEC19776-1/ISO-IEC19776-1v4.0/ISO-IEC19776-1v4.0-WD1<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are now working on reconciling the carefully collected set of specification issues and comments available at<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Web3D Consortium Mantis Bug Tracker<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>https://www.web3d.org/member-only/mantis/view_all_bug_page.php<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Around 40 active Mantis issues are listed in attached .csv (comma-separated value) text file<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The X3D XML Encoding is part of a family of specifications, illustrated at:<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>X3D Graphics Standards Relationships<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dGraphicsStandardsRelationships.png<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dGraphicsStandardsRelationships.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>which are all getting recentered on our new many-years-in-the-making International Standard (IS)<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>X3D 4.0 Architecture<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4/ISO-IEC19775-1v4-IS<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dick and I expect to move fairly swiftly through the current set of comments, hopefully finishing in March. After that we will pursue X3D file formats using ClassicVRML, Compressed Binary, and JSON encodings. All X3D file encodings are designed to with sufficient expressive power to capture all functionality defined in our language-neutral abstract-functionality standard, the X3D 4.0 Architecture.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All comments are always welcome. The best way to influence our efforts is to perform an initial review now, and let everyone know what you think.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Have fun with .x3d XML graphics! 8)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none'>all the best, Don<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none'>Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br brutzman@nps.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none'>Watkins 270, MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA +1.831.656.2149<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-ligatures:none'>X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics https://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>