Delta Document
Date: November 17, 2017
Summary
Version 3.5 is a significant release featuring two new objects (xIndividualizedEducationalPlan and xTransferIep) and associated types. Resulting from nearly two years of study and review, these new objects are intended to support the encoding and transfer of all elements of an Individualized Education Plan, IEP. They is constructed to participate as either a transfer object, like xSRE, or as an entity object. There are no other changes made to the data model in this release.
License
SIF (NA) 3.5 will be released under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The impacts of this license on our XML Schemas are currently under review. Actions may be taken to release them under a more permissive license, such as Apache 2.0.
Objects Impacted
New Object Collections Special Education Entity Report
Supporting Artifacts Impacted
Full Delta
For the NA data model, GitHub provides a delta of our XML Schemas. Allowing you to see every detailed change. For those interested, here is a direct link comparing the latest 3.4 and 3.5 releases.
https://github.com/Access4LearningNA/NADM/compare/3.4-e1...v3.5
Backwards Compatibility Considerations
Since the North American Technical Board (NATB) has scoped this release to purely the addition of the IEP objects, no backwards compatibility issues are expected.
Changes in the Presentation of the Specification
Errata
Date: March 28, 2018