Now that the final report [1] is out, I'm ready to say - it doesn't go anywhere near far enough. Presently it reads:
3.2.5 Suspend Work on RDA
3.2.5.1 Suspend further new developmental work on RDA until a) the use and business cases for moving to RDA have been satisfactorily articulated, b) the presumed benefits of RDA have been convincingly demonstrated, and c) more, large-scale, comprehensive testing of FRBR as it relates to proposed provisions of RDA has been carried out against real cataloging data, and the results of those tests have been analyzed (see 4.2.1 below)
I'd propose adding the following:
3.2.5.1.1 Also suspend further new developmental work on OAI-ORE, SRU@OASIS, HTML5, RDF/*, SKOS, MODS, OOXML, USB3, Android, OpenSocial, the Facebook API, 802.11N, Python 3000, Universal Wiki Markup 1.0, and actually all of Wikipedia, just stop updating that for a bit, yes, that would be lovely, thanks, IMDB, all Google Calendar accounts, the Writers' Strike, Chandler, DukeNukemForever, everybody's del.icio.us bookmarks, recordings on the Tzadik, Anti, and Cantaloupe Records labels, Stevey's Blog Rants, the Whole Wireless Spectrum, OSX, Vista, CSS3, Rails, ngc4lib, the Fed Funds rate, the Billboard Top 100, HTTPbis, DLF Aquifer, ECMAScript 2, IndieTorrents, TED Talks, The TWiT Network, XKCD, mongrel 1.2, Koha 3, dchud's hairline and belly, all Debian package repositories, Led Zeppelin V, the Django trunk, the new Jandek record, NTP, Archivists' Toolkit 1.1, OpenSRF 1.0, and Perl 6, until such time as we have been able to catch up on all of our other obligations and professional responsibilities and newly devote the full and complete community attention each of these critical developments vital to the future of our entire profession deserves. And testing, lots of testing, too, we can't forget that (see 4.2.1 below).
Some nice things I’ve missed:
Jenn Riley, Musings On RDA, LC Working Group Report, and Various Other Random Things: “For example, the OCLC response touts its FRBR work as testing the WG didn’t realize was happening, but it glosses over...
Links:
[1] http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/
[2] http://www.frbr.org/2008/02/06/blog-roundup