What is DPX

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The Design Proposal Exchange (DPX for short) is a online format for planning and publishing designs, protocols, standards and other technical documents in a open source format. Each design is given a unique identifier which looks something like this: DPX25-584694. It is structured as DPX{YY}-{RANDOM 6 NUMBERS} this allows for one million unique documents per year. If one million document pass or a number is taken a letter can be put next to the year like this DPX25H-593349 any letter from A-Z can be used. Each of these deisgns are called a record.

What must a record contain?

Each record should have the following metadata:

• The ID
• Date
• Authors
• Title
• A description
• Copyrights
• License
• Usage rights

This can be stored in a text file or in a PDF but must be easily seen. A record must also contain a file (not including the metadata) of these types:

• A TXT file of the design documentation
• A Markdown file of the design
• A PDF
• A archive containing anything relating to the record in these formats:
  • ZIP
  • TAR
  • TAR GZ This makes it so records are not empty and have a use.

Licensing

Record can have any licence and usage rights, but a free and open source licence is preferred such as Creative Commons or GNU General Public License 3.0.

Usage rights

If you prefer to have a custom licence you can put set usage rights such as commercial use or adaptation rights.

My own records I have made

• DPX25-947834 - Open File Format Standard
• DPX25-494811 - DPX PDF Record Design
• DPX25-694837 - Pixel Map (PMAP) File Format Specification