[Action requested] Voting to adopt FDC3 2.2

[West, Kristopher (Enterprise Engineering, Technology)]

Hi All,

At the FDC3 Standards Working Gorup meeting on Thursday 27th Feb 2025 consent was given to open a vote on the adoption of the current FDC3 pre-draft as the next version of FDC3, 2.2.  We revisited the scope of this release in the FDC3 General meeting a few minutes and will distribute the recording as soon as its been prepared.

It has been almost 2 years since FDC3 2.1 was adopted (june 2023) - during that time the FDC3 community has produced two very significant extensions to the FDC3 Standard that are part of FDC3 2.2:

• FDC3 for Web Browsers #896
• FDC3 .NET binding #931 / Multiple Language bindings #990
  (with .NET Standard 2.0 declarations provided by the fdc3-dotnet project contributed by Morgan Stanley)
• Updated FDC3 Charter #1023
• FDC3 mono-repo #1297

Pre-draft documentation: https://fdc3.finos.org/docs/next/fdc3-standard

Post-release Preview: https://deploy-preview-1537--fdc3.netlify.app/

Changelog: https://github.com/finos/FDC3/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#unreleased

Issues resolved: https://github.com/finos/FDC3/milestone/11

Voting

Voting is open to all registered voting participants. If you are not already registered, please use this link: fdc3-participants+subs...@finos.org to send a templated email to join the enrolled voting participants group.

Please note that Standard participants were previously bound to the provisions in the FINOS IP Policy as described in the FINOS Standards governance document. From FDC3 2.2 onwards we've switched to the Community Specification License, as recommended by FINOS and the Linux Foundation. Please follow the links for details of our scope, governance, code of conduct and historical licensing details. 

Poll question: Should the pre-draft, based on the above scope be adopted as FDC3 2.1?

To vote, please send an email to fdc3-par...@finos.org with a body in one of the following formats:

• Yes, I support the adoption of the current pre-draft as FDC3 2.2! (preformatted email link)
• No, I do NOT support the adoption of the current pre-draft as FDC3 2.2 and believe its scope should be reopened for discussion. (preformatted email link)
• N.B. Please provide details as to the nature of your objection in the email.

Voting will remain open on this issue until at least midnight BST on Monday 1st April 2025, after which the FDC3 maintainers will meet to determine if there is consensus for adoption.

K

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[West, Kristopher (Enterprise Engineering, Technology)]

Hi All,

Voting on the adoption of FDC3 2.2 is now closed and the FDC3 Maintainers are happy to announce a unanimous result FOR the adoption of FDC3 2.2. Thank you to those of you that participated in the vote, and (of course) the development of FDC3 2.2.

The FDC3 maintainers will work to release both the 2.2 website and 2.2.0 NPM module and will report back when these are available.

If you or a colleague are interested in getting involved in the next phase of FDC3's development, check out this LinkedIn post from FINOS: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/finosfoundation_fdc3-interoperability-opensource-activity-7313177164776914944-slOW

And if you'd like overview of all things FDC3 2.2 and plans for FDC3 2.3, please check out the recording of the recent FDC3 General meeting: https://www.finos.org/blog/fdc3-general-meeting-march-2025

K

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Subject: [Action requested] Voting to adopt FDC3 2.2