On 7/7/16, Henry Chan <henry.fai.hang.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm wondering if there is any "formal" specification for the sqlite3 > application format, as in standardized as an ISO/IEC standard, ECMA > standard or RFC?
How does one go about getting a long-established file format such as SQLite "formalized"? > > This is similar to .DOCX being registered as both ISO/IEC 29500 > and ECMA-376; JSON being RFC 7159 and ECMA-404, XML being a W3C > specification with various parts as RFC. > > Without a "formal" specification, it makes it (unnecessarily) "hard" for > governments to adopt SQLite3's database file as an application format as an > official formats for information exchange. > > Such a "formal" specification would simply be a stripped down version of > Section 1 of http://www.sqlite.org/fileformat2.html, where all the reasons > for quirks or definite behavior are stripped and all values could be > described in the database' committed state. > > > Yours, > Henry > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users