OPEN SOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE

The IMS Core Technologies Program focuses on fundamental technologies that can be used by a variety of applications. Our program currently has four main thrusts:

	We are extending the Blocks Architecture, which currently consists of the BEEP core protocol and the APEX and ANTACID services.
	We are preparing for release the SpaceMapper scripting language for scraping HTML pages into XML. The programming team is headed by Remus Pereni of NoLimits Technologies in Romania.
	We are preparing for release collaborative filtering algorithms and software which are being contributed as part of the THE IMS !.COM PROGRAM
	We are developing a system for document annotation based on Xpath, XML, and XSL-T which will be used for annotating intellectual property and standards documents.

All work on the Core Technologies Program is released at Mappa.Mundi as open source. Any standards submissions from the program are submitted first for review to our internal Protocol Advisory Board, chaired by Marshall T. Rose. Other members of the Protocol Advisory Board include Dave Farber and Paul Vixie.