[QTI] QTI 2.1 draft specification withdrawn

[Colin Smythe]

>Hi List,
>
>In the last few days the QTI 2.1 draft specification has been removed
>from the IMS website, citing a lack of participation:
>
>"The IMS QTIv2.1 draft specification has been removed from the IMS
>website. Adequate feedback on the specification has not been received,
>and therefore, the specification has been put back into the IMS
>project group process for further work."
>
>I am not quite sure whether to interpret this as a sincere attempt by
>IMS to make the specification more relevant, or as a drive for
>additional memberships and therefore additional revenue. It does seem
>to put a spanner in the works for the existing QTI 2.1 implementations
>(e.g. http://www.qtitools.org/), and is is particularly annoying given
>the number of helpful clarifications in the 2.1 draft compared to 2.0.
>
>I'm interested if anyone is willing to offer their thoughts on this move?

Hi All,

I've posted this on behalf of Rib Abel (IMS GLC CEO).

Colin S.

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QTI v2.1 was under public review for more than 2 years and did not 
achieve sufficient implementation and feedback to warrant being voted 
on as a final specification. Therefore it has been withdrawn for 
further work by the IMS membership. IMS cannot continue to publish 
specifications that have not met the rigors of the IMS process.

IMS GLC has convened a set of leading organizations to take the lead 
on this new work - which will be considered to be in the CM/DN draft 
phase in the IMS process.  Therefore, we are very encouraged and 
hopeful that a new version will be available in due time, possibly a 
QTI v2.2, along with the necessary conformance profiles. However, we 
cannot assume that it will be a linear evolution from QTI v2.1.

Until that time the only version of QTI that is fully endorsed by IMS 
GLC is v1.2.1, that is supported under the Common Cartridge 
Alliance: <http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/alliance.html>http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/alliance.html . 
While QTI version 2.0 has been voted on as a final specification by 
the IMS members, it's deficiencies are well known and IMS does not 
recommend implementation of it.

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