It is now five years since the completion of the NewsML [1] standard
and the International Press Telecommunications Council [3] is hard at
work on NewsML 2.  In November 2004 we published the Requirements for
NewsML 2 [2] and are now glad to announce the publication of the 
first public Working Drafts of:

-  the NewsML 2 Architecture Model [2]

-  the NewsML 2 Architecture Technical Specification [2]

We welcome comments on these documents and will study them carefully 
though we do not have the resources to provide feedback on each 
comment received.

To submit and/or discuss comments, please use the NewsML 2 mailing 
list:
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newsml-2/ 
To minimise spam, we require that people wishing to send messages 
join the list.

[1] http://www.newsml.org/ 
[2] http://www.iptc.org/dev/ 
[3] http://www.iptc.org/ 


Misha Wolf
News Standards Manager, Reuters, www.reuters.com
Chair, News Metadata Framework WG, IPTC, www.iptc.org/dev
Vice-Chair, NewsML 2 Architecture WP, IPTC, www.iptc.org/dev


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