Re: [emergency-rim] EDXL-RIM Common Types template request

[Robin Cover <robin@oasis-open.org>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Werner.Joerg@iem.com wrote:

> All,
>
> Given the feedback from the TC Admin, I am considering submitting a
> revised template request. Before proceeding, I would like your input on the 
> points below.
>
> 1) Work Product Title: "Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Reference Information Model (RIM): Common Types, v1.0"
> Reason for change: expanded abbreviations and hyphen elimination from previous "EDXL RIM - Common Types".
>
> 2) Work Product Abbreviation (WPA): considering alternatives
>  a) "EDXL-RIM-CT-v1.0"
>  b) "EDXL-CT-v1.0"
> or using "_" for version separation

Werner/SC - thanks for taking care with the selection of names
and URIs.  It's possible to change your mind, but preferable to
choose something and stay with the decision.

Just one clarification on the "_" (UNDERSCORE) character.

One of the (obscure?) rules for filenames and directory names comes
into play here: the rule that licenses any of the
characters A-Z, a-z, and 0-9 (with "." and "-" and
a couple other constraints).  Since the Work
Product Abbreviation is incorporated into the
document identifier and the principal filename for
the WP, the UNDERSCORE is not allowed [1]

>  c) "EDXL-RIM-CT_v1.0"
>  d) "EDXL-CT_v1.0"
> or lower case counterparts
>  e) "edxl-rim-ct-v1.0"
>  f) "edxl-ct-v1.0"
>  g) "edxl-rim-ct_v1.0"
>  h) "edxl-ct_v1.0"
>  i) other?
> Note that WPA determines the file name of the work products. So far, we
> have not been consistent in the EM-TC, using upper case, lower case or even 
> mixed forms (e.g. emergency_edxl_have-1.0, EDXL-RM-SPEC-V1.0,
> EDXL-DE_Spec_v1.0, cap-v1.1-ipaws-profile-v1.0). OASIS does not impose
> any particular format, but indicates that there is a tendency towards lower 
> case notations for file names, and I personally believe that it would be nice 
> to have a consistent notation within the TC.
>
> 3) Namespaces
>
>  - Document URI:
>    http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/emergency/edxl/rim/ct or other variants derived from WPA.
>
>  - xml namespace:
>    urn:oasis:names:tc:emergency:edxl:rim:ct or other variants derived from WPA.
>
> Thanks for your feedback,
> Werner

[1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/specGuidelines/ndr/namingDirectives.html#nameCharacters