[ubl-ndrsc] NDR agenda item: major/minor version numbers in NamespaceURN's

["Burcham, Bill" <Bill_Burcham@stercomm.com>]

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We don't have a firm rule for expressing versioning information in our vocabulary(s).

 

The 0p70 schemas put version information in the namespace URI.  The NDR doc doesn't give a specific format for those -- just says [TBD version information].  In the 0p70 release I don't really understand the system we're using.  Here's the Order URN:

 

urn:oasis:names:tc:ubl:Order:1.0:0.70

 

It appears that there are two version components here: "1.0" and "0.70".  In the NDR doc we _hint_ at a major/minor scheme.  Is the "1.0" meant to denote a major designator, and "0.70" minor? 

 

If those are respectively major and minor numbers, then I propose:

 

* change the number scheme so that the major number is a non-negative integer and the minor number is a non-negative integer

 

That'd make, e.g. the Order urn look like:

 

urn:oasis:names:tc:ubl:Order:0:7

 

That'd be major version 0 and minor version 7.  We'd go change the other URN's accordingly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Burcham Sr. Software Architect, Standards and Applied Technology Sterling Commerce, Inc. 469.524.2164 bill_burcham@stercomm.com