# Roadmap

bitmark grows in the open. What the reference parser does today is the
standard; proposals are worked out by the association's working groups and
become standard once two independent implementations support them.

## In the parser today

- [Toggle tags](https://docs.bitmark-association.org/concepts/text-formatting.md#toggle-tags) — styles switched on and off inside the text.
- [JSONL](https://docs.bitmark-association.org/concepts/getting-started.md) — one bit per line, the format for APIs and agents.
- [The Rosetta Map](https://docs.bitmark-association.org/concepts/rosetta-map.md) — NISO STS import that keeps every ID, anchor and link.
- [Alias and diff books](https://docs.bitmark-association.org/concepts/alias-and-diff-books.md) — the same content under other properties, or only what changes.

## Proposed

- [The bit passport](https://docs.bitmark-association.org/concepts/bit-passport.md) — one header for rights, AI use and accessibility of every bit in a delivery. It is the most important proposal: it is how a publisher says once, for a whole delivery, what readers and AI may do with it.
- [Versions and updates](https://docs.bitmark-association.org/concepts/versions-and-updates.md) — a hash and a date per bit, so readers refetch only what changed.

## Planned

- [Export back to NISO STS](https://docs.bitmark-association.org/concepts/rosetta-map.md#commands) — a complete NISO STS document written from the bits.
- Docs for agents — llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every page.
- [A toggle for hints](https://docs.bitmark-association.org/concepts/text-formatting.md#hints) — the last part of the legacy inline form.

## Taking part

A proposal starts in the public bitmark-improvement-proposals repository; see
[how the standard changes](https://docs.bitmark-association.org/concepts/the-standard.md#proposals). Anyone can
[join a working group](https://www.bitmark-association.org/memberships)
through the bitmark Association.