[alicebot-general] XAIML

[Noel Bush]

As others have described, I hope to see a thriving ecosystem of 
AIML-oriented innovation very shortly.  Extended versions of the AIML 
functional set can be made available rapidly as xAIML dialects. 
Features that prove popular/useful might someday find their way into 
another version of the AIML spec (should the committee process ever get 
underway again).  And any new version of AIML can automatically fit into 
the xAIML system (there are some initial thoughts about this at 
http://aitools.org/What_happens_if_there_is_a_new_version_of_AIML%3F). 
So it's really a complete system that should help things move along more 
productively.

Noel

Dirk Scheuring wrote:
> Dr. Rich Wallace wrote:
>  
>> There already exists a body, the AIML Architecture Committee, for
>> setting the AIML standard (co-incidentally co-founded by Noel Bush).
> 
> What standard? There exists a /working draft/ for an AIML standard [1], which Noel wrote up and published on Oct 25, 2001. You didn't show any interest in doing any further work on it since then, none of your commitees ever got around to producing a bug-free and unambigious version, and I don't expect this to change if nobody pushes you to move along some. So there.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> [1]  http://www.alicebot.org/TR/2001/WD-aiml/
>