Summary: DrawingML should be a separate standard Justification: DrawingML has general applicability as an XML vocabulary for vector graphics. It should therefore be a standard in its own right that can be referenced in isolation by other ISO standards, such as ISO 26300.

Remove DrawingML from 29500 and propose it as a separate standard, or commit to doing so at a later stage.

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment NO-0006 (Modified: 2008-01-08) This an interesting suggestion, and would be an appropriate topic for consideration in future maintenance of the specification. We note that it was not a goal of DIS 29500 to define a general-purpose vector graphics format. DrawingML is the vector graphics markup language necessary for DIS 29500, in the same way that the “drawing” namespace have been defined in ISO/IEC 26300 (ODF) to represent drawings necessary for the ODF document format (as stated in response to US-0093). However, during maintenance, the possibility of proposing DrawingML as a separate standard could be considered. However, as stated in the response to CZ-0002, we agree that DIS 29500 has parts “that lend themselves to use by other standards.” The response to that comment describes a proposed division of DIS 29500 that addresses the two most commonly noted opportunities for reuse of portions of DIS 29500: the Open Packaging Conventions, and Markup Compatibility and Extensibility. The question of whether further division of the standard is useful, and how such work should proceed, is typically a maintenance activity. Another possibility would be to have a future maintenance activity create a conformance class for DrawingML.