xDELTA was Leigh Dobbs invention as far as I understand.
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Thiele
To: TDWG-SDD@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: Name for the standard

so far, we have:
 
BioDDS - (Chuck Miller) (spinning off to BDDS -> BDS -> BD -> D ->DELTA ->Jim Croft)
BioDescML - (Chuck Miller)
BioML - (Jim Croft) (taken - see xml.coverpages.org/bioml.html)
BioTaxML - (Chuck Miller)
CAML (Jim Croft) (taken - see http://www.vision.fhg.de/~veenhuis/CAML/)
ExSDD - (Stan Blum)
DescML - (Jim Croft)
PanML (Nick Lander, who will undoubtedly pass the port to Richard Pankhurst)
TDML - (Guillaume Rousse)
TaxDescML - (Guillaume Rousse)
xDELTA - (don't know who to give the port to for this one - maybe Mike Dallwitz)
XSDD - (Bob Morris and Stan Blum)
 
Keep them coming. There hasn't been so much traffic on the list for years!
 
-k