Publish an open API so that other software can read the binary MXD files, just like was done for the File Geodatabase
ArcGIS Desktop is in mature support and will be retired March 1, 2026 so we won’t be considering this idea. We recommend that you migrate to ArcGIS Pro, our fully supported desktop GIS application. See Migrate from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro for more information. Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas. We truly appreciate your contributions to continuously improving the software to help you do your work and look forward to what ideas you have for ArcGIS Pro.
Note, the persistence model for ArcGIS Pro is the CIM and this is available here: https://github.com/Esri/cim-spec
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