<div dir="ltr"><div>Dick Puk and I have been quietly toiling all year to update multiple X3D specifications, as part of the X3D Standards Working Group.</div><div><br></div><div>The X3D Standards Progress page shows a concise summary of marked-up and pristine HTML updates of all these long-standing standards documents.</div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-1b536c88-7fff-db30-f027-ccb47a132552"><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/progress">X3D Standards Progress | Web3D Consortium</a>
</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/progress">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/progress</a></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:624px;height:300px"><img src="cid:ii_mgbil7og0" alt="image.png" width="562" height="270"></span></span></p><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">We are now requesting review and comments for the </span></font><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">X3D XML, ClassicVRML, and Compressed Binary Encodings to match the X3D version 4.0 Architecture.  You are welcome to view markup changes, pristine versions, or both side-by-side for careful comparison.  For example, see attached screen comparison.  </span></div></span><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">All changes are carefully documented in the Web3D Consortium Mantis issue tracker, and maintained in github version control.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">In coming months we will b</span></font><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">egin following a new ISO process for PAS submission and standardization.</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Many thanks to many implementers, modelers, and users over the years who have steadily improved X3D.  </b></span>😀<b style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">👌</b></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All comments appreciated, best discussed on x3d-public mailing list (or x3d mailing list for member-only, private concerns.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Have fun with X3D!  </span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace">all the best, Don</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace">-- </font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace">X3D Graphics, Maritime Robotics, Distributed Simulation</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace">Relative Motion Consulting  <a href="https://RelativeMotion.info" target="_blank">https://RelativeMotion.info</a></font></div></div></div></div></div>