They were aware of TEI, DicML, and OLIF but might not know that 
standard.  I didn't.  So this is certainly something to suggest!

On 12/5/2011 5:19 PM, Piotr Bański wrote:
> ISO 1951 is a delivery format standard. Not that I'm advocating it, not
> at all, but it would seem kind of natural to see what their take on it is.
>
> At night, I might be grumpier than usual... ;-)
>
> best,
>
>    P.
>
> On 05/12/11 23:11, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>> They looked at TEI and others when considering whether to include this
>> in EPUB 3 but decided that it did more than necessary.  EPUB is meant as
>> a format for delivery, not an archival format, so they are only trying
>> to cover the limited set of use cases described here.
>>
>> On 12/5/2011 5:09 PM, Piotr Bański wrote:
>>> Thanks, Kevin,
>>>
>>> One would think that proposing a new standard, even one of restricted
>>> scope, would entail having consulted and referenced other existing
>>> standards, or at least would require notifying the target groups
>>> (Lexicog and Euralex lists come to mind, minimally).
>>>
>>> Oh well. I'll push this into Lexicog, at least.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>>     Piotr
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/12/11 17:50, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>>>> Forwarding this from the mailing list of the IDPF EPUB Working Group.
>>>> Note the draft proposal for a working group on facilitating inclusion of
>>>> dictionaries in EPUB.  I believe feedback should be sent to Markus
>>>> Gylling, whose email is given in Google Code.
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:epub-working-
>>>>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Markus Gylling
>>>>> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 5:50 PM
>>>>> To: Google Groups EPUB
>>>>> Subject: Re: Charter proposals for dictionaries and indexes projects
>>>>> now available for comment
>>>>>
>>>>> … and the proposals are available at
>>>>>
>>>>> http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/wiki/DictionariesCharterProposal
>>>>> and
>>>>> http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/wiki/IndexesCharterProposal
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 2, 2011, at 11:29 PM, Markus Gylling wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> following the virtual workshop on dictionaries and indexes that was
>>>>> held on 18 October, the ad-hoc groups that were formed have now
>>>>> published drafts of charter proposals for two working groups on indexes
>>>>> and dictionaries, respectively.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As per IDPFs policies and procedures, these are hereby submitted to
>>>>> the membership for a 14 day comment period (ending December 16, 2011).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Comments received will be reviewed by the AHGs and IDPF board and the
>>>>> subsequent step would be for a revised version of the proposal to be
>>>>> approved by the IDPF board for submission to members for a consent vote
>>>>> to approve working group creation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We welcome your input!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On behalf of the AHGs,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /markus
>>>>
>>