XBRL International publishes Product Roadmap

28 February 2006

XBRL International has published a Product Roadmap setting out the organisation’s current plans for the development and release of technical documents and production of training materials.

Present plans include the development of stand-alone, add-on modules to the Specification which deal with specific issues, such as taxonomy versioning.  Plans also cover the release of new or improved guidance documents.  The core Specification will not change for the foreseeable future, apart from the possible release of clarifying errata.

The Roadmap covers the period from the present up to the end of 2007.  Among other things, it gives details of planned updates to the Specification on Dimensional Taxonomies and the release of a new Specificaiton on Formulas and Functions.  It sets planned dates for updated releases of XBRL International’s GL and GCD taxonomies and covers milestones for issues which are currently in the research phase.

It will be updated regularly and is intended to increase awareness of XBRL International activities as well as to support planning by members of the organisation.

Clearly, all future dates are subject to change in the light of discussions and feedback on priorities.  

XBRL official documents are created through a formal process which ensures careful consideration, wide public consultation and testing of plans before a document reaches final recommendation status.  All documents, whether they relate to the Specification, guidance or training, go through the process.

The Product Roadmap is available at http://www.xbrl.org/technical/PDT-Roadmap-latest.htm.

Announced by:

Peter Calvert

XBRL International

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