The IMS Packaging Service v1.0 specification will enable the managed exchange of any content package-based data model using web services (including the usage of attachments to the SOAP messages). This will provide a service definition for the exchange of data models based upon any version of the IMS Content Package.

This is new specification will be available for public draft on the August 31st for a November 15th release.

Part of the planned IMS Web Services

wonder what happened to this? - not in http://www.imsglobal.org/specifications.html

I think that this is some kind of functionality whereby your actual 'assets' can sit on any server/machine on the network and the IMSmanifest file can then point to them, rather than was was previously implemented where all assets had to be included inside the package itself. not sure. -- BrentSimpson DateTime(2006-01-04T23:22:15Z)?