The CF conventions were developed by the original authors (Brian Eaton, Jonathan Gregory, Bob Drach, Karl Taylor and Steve Hankin) from 2000 to 2003. They passed through several beta versions before 1.0, which was the first generally released version.
CF-beta 1 (22 June 2001)
CF-beta 2 (29 June 2001)
CF-beta 3 (8 August 2001)
CF-beta 5 (1 March 2003)