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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dick Puk and I have been working steadily to update multiple X3D specifications. This work is being performed as the
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Standards Working Group</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> to steadily advance all X3D specifications to match the X3D 4.0 Architecture.</span></div>
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We are happy to report that four draft X3D specifications are now ready for review and comment by X3D community and Web3D Consortium members.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">19776-1<span style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246);"> <b><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19776-1v4.0-WD1/Part01/X3D_XML.html" id="OWA307899a8-1033-0390-44b4-3040550b8852" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19776-1v4.0-WD1/Part01/X3D_XML.html" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246); margin: 0px;">X3D
XML Encoding 4.0</a></b></span><b> </b>revision </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">19776-2<span style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246);"><b> <a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19776-2v4.0-WD1/Part02/X3D_ClassicVRML.html" id="OWAf74cf42c-2622-216f-9645-b2d2fc9a96a1" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19776-2v4.0-WD1/Part02/X3D_ClassicVRML.html" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246); margin: 0px;">X3D
Classic VRML Encoding 4.0</a></b></span><b> </b>revision</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">19775-2<span style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246);"><b> <a href="https://web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-2v4.0-CD/Part02/X3D_SAI.html" id="OWA676acc25-eb15-f0cf-daa1-9fe1d8c6f7d2" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-2v4.0-CD/Part02/X3D_SAI.html" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246); margin: 0px;">X3D
Scene Authoring Interface (SAI) 4.0</a></b></span> advancement to ISO DIS by June 2025</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">19775-1<span style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246);"><b> <a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD//Part01/Architecture.html" id="OWAe5041736-7587-66d6-dd6d-4f816649a951" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3Dv4Draft/ISO-IEC19775-1v4.1-CD//Part01/Architecture.html" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246); margin: 0px;">X3D
Architecture 4.1</a></b></span><b> </b>maintenance; we are carefully checking and refining existing work, not calling for brand-new capabilities.</div>
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Color-coding key for markup backgrounds:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">white: unchanged from prior specification</div>
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<b>The first two, XML and ClassicVRML encodings, are especially important.</b> Recommended approach is to review them together in two browser tabs, side-by-side for clarity. You will see that these legacy documents have been reorganized somewhat so that these
two specifications now correspond closely. We expect that this consistent structure will help with everyone's understanding and also help when we pursue the JSON encoding sometime this year. </div>
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<b>Please read, review, and comment! </b>As usual, technical discussion on the archived x3d-public@web3d.org mailing list. Are your "favorite" issues handled satisfactorily?</div>
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We also wanted to report that the long-running rules with ISO are changing somewhat, and the evolving process is being closely tracked by Web3D Consortium leadership. We have clear paths forward, with accelerating progress thanks to the technical achievements
of X3D 4.0 Architecture. Each of these new drafts consistently match those X3D 4.0 capabilities.</div>
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As shown on the Web3D Calendar, one of our weekly editor meetings remains 09-1000 pacific if direct discussion is ever necessary. Additional assets linked in the calendar appointment:</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246);"><b><a href="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dGraphicsStandardsRelationships.png" id="OWAf367fb86-047c-df45-4f70-dd180a655c7d" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dGraphicsStandardsRelationships.png" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5" style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246); margin: 0px;">X3D
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<span style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246);"><b><a href="https://www.iso.org/committee/45252.html" id="OWA9f7eb6d5-edad-224c-fe7e-84b53e4c7e48" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.iso.org/committee/45252.html" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="8" style="color: rgb(13, 88, 246); margin: 0px;">ISO/IEC
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We are now in our third decade of progress, following the initial concepts and demonstrations for the original "Virtual Reality Markup Language" discussed at SIGGRAPH 94 and Web3D 95 conferences. None of this stable evolution can occur without the efforts
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Thanks in advance for all review, comments, examples and implementations. Onward we go together.</div>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 9pt;">Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br brutzman@nps.edu</span></p>
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