This section records decisions about the NeXus-API.
NIAC 2003: New type NX_BINARY with an attribute mime_type for storing a variety of binary data.
NIAC 2003: New type NX_BOOLEAN with value 0 (false) or one (true)
NIAC 2003: The NeXus-API will be extended to support XML as a file format.
NIAC 2004: Develop NXopenpath
NIAC 2007HMI: Pete Petersons C++ NeXus binding to be added to NeXus source distribution
NIAC 2007HMI: IDL binding added to NeXus source distribution
NIAC 2007HMI: Mark the use of HDF-4 as deprecated, no new features for HDF-4
NIAC 2012: Statements
2014 (not a NIAC decision): The NeXus-API is frozen. Maintenance is reduced to bug fixes.