The OpenOffice Project has posted the first release candidate of OpenOffice 1.1.4, an open source office suite for Linux and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. I used the previous 1.0 version to write Effective XML. 1.1.4 is exclusively a bug fix release. OpenOffice is dual licensed under the LGPL and Sun Industry Standards Source License.
The IETF has posted working drafts for five more URL schemes:
(Does anyone still use Prospero any more? For that matter, does anyone still use gopher?) These all document schemes that were originally documented in the soon to be historic RFC 1738. NNTP URLs are deprecated in favor of news. Otherwise, none of them make significant changes.