It has just been announced, at the culmination of the SEC roundtable on December 17th 2008, that the proposal for XBRL filing has been accepted (carried by 4 votes to 1) as well as for mutual fund reporting.
We are awaiting a press release, but it seems some minor changes to the May 2008 proposal will [...]

XBRL deployment is a long river, and you need to keep that in mind regardless if you’re focussed on the (downstream) regulatory filing and analysing components or the (upstream) ERP integration and general ledger design.
I’ve put together a list that takes into account technical, accounting, filing and investor relations. The point is not to compare [...]