[QTI] Re: QTI 2.1 draft specification withdrawn

[Yannick Warnier]

Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 18:26 +0100, Niall Barr a écrit :
[...]
> The QTI 2.1 draft specification has been moved out of the public draft
> stage because the feedback to IMS from people implementing it had
> indicated that there were too many optional parts, meaning that they
> effectively were losing interoperability by implementing different
> options depending on customer requirements. 
[...]

This is very similar to the way SCORM 2.0 is going as well[1]. They want
the standards to be so flexible that anyone can add their own modules,
thus loosing the interoperability.

Seems like they don't quite get the meaning of a standard...

Yannick

[1] Related (short) discussion:
http://wiki.letsi.org/display/nextscorm/Avoid+SCORM+Profiles