Clarifying the Role of IFC STEP (SPF) in IFC5 and Its Relationship with Modern Formats like JSON

There are a lot of things still unknown on IFC 5.
I’m pretty confident to say the primary format for IFC 5 will not be SPFF.
Currently is looks to become JSON, but that is not a final decision yet.
JSON is also an ISO standard that is supported for archiving purposes.

There will not be a separate format per workflows.

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