XII Announces Release of Versioning Specification Recommendation

(4 April 2013) -- Versioning Specifications are Now Released as Recommendation

XBRL International is pleased to announce that the XBRL Standards Board, at the request of the XBRL Versioning Working Group, has approved as Recommendation (REC) the Versioning Specifications including Base, Concept Use, Concept Details, and Dimensions. 

XBRL International would like to thank the members of the working group who have worked so diligently to bring the Versioning Specs to Recommendation, including the following members and their affiliations at the time of contribution:  Roland Hommes, Rhocon; Paul Warren, CoreFiling; Ignacio Hernández-Ros, Reporting Estandar S.L.; Hugh Wallis, XBRL International Inc.; Haiko Philipp, IFRS Foundation; Geoff Shuetrim, Galexy; Ian Stokes-Rees, CoreFiling; David North, CoreFiling; Herm Fischer, Mark V Systems; Richard Ashby, CoreFiling; Raynier van Egmond, C3i SMC LLC; Eric Jarry, Bank of France; Maciej Piechocki, IFRS Foundation; Suguru Washio, Fujitsu Ltd. and Stuart Barker, CoreFiling.

The Specifications can be found at the following links: 

• Versioning - Base (HTML)
• Versioning - Concept Use (HTML)
• Versioning - Concept Details (HTML)
• Versioning - Dimensions (HTML)

The specifications can also be found on the Recommendations page of the XBRL International website:  http://www.xbrl.org/SpecRecommendations.