Remote Telescope Markup Language
An Implementation of XML for Remote Control of Telescopes
Summary history of RTML (Rick Hessman)
22 December 1999: Remote Telescope Standards Working Group
RTML 1.0

23 June 1999: Shawn Gordon proposes RTML (described in RTML 1.1 section)

29 June 2000: first implementation of RTML, first DTD, and first HOU RTML-generating script
for the Hands-On Universe(TM) Project
RTML 1.1

7 October 2000: second implementation of RTML: Hands-On Universe(TM) Project
RTML 2.1

October 2001: the first international standard for imaging
RTML 3.0

September 2002: the proposed universal standard for request management, heterogenous networks, imaging and spectroscopy
RTML 3+

June 2004: fully described at Rick Hessman's CORE (Common Observation Request Exchange) Project.
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