Re: FYI - Regrep Reference Implementation - Questions/Issues

[Craig Chevrier <craigchevrier@juno.com>]

> | Need Sample Data
> 
> Yes.  Can our managing editor arrange for this?

Can we use data from the XML Catalog
<http://www.xml.org/xmlorg_registry/index.shtml>?  I think those listings
most closely match the elements which would be submitted to the RegRep.  

-craig



On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:27:14 -0800 Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net> writes:
> Laura wrote:
> | These are the notes I took when Una was reviewing her slides ....
> 
> Thanks for this, Laura.
> 
> | Policy Questions/Issues
> 
> I agree these are indeed mostly policy considerations.  My
> responses here are opinions on policy.
> 
> | What can people submit?
> |  - XDR?
> 
> Anything relevant to the purpose of OASIS?  I don't see how we
> can exclude any application of SGML (and I see XML and its
> various schema flavors as applications of SGML).
> 
> | Shall submissions be uniform and if yes, what should they include?
> 
> I don't think we'll get much response if we demand uniformity.
> 
> |  - schema
> |  - sample instance
> |  - supporting documents
> 
> Just a bare DTD would be acceptable to me, although of course
> it needs its accompanying metadata.  We might want to require a
> short description.  Remember, one of our goals is supporting SGML
> on the Web (download of DTD for parsing an instance).
> 
> | Is every submission reviewed before being accessible on the 
> repository?
> |  - Assumption is yes
> 
> Agreed.  However, in the EBXML work, there is a requirement that
> trusted users be allowed to deposit without review, or with review
> only by software check that the deposited item matches "the 
> metamodel".  I think we might permit at least some users to be
> trusted.
> 
> | Are updates allowed?
> 
> They must be.  But I think this question is about the distinctions
> between "update" and "version" and "new submission".  We need some
> use cases here to organize our discussion.
> 
> | One submitter per organization?
> 
> See my message of Saturday.
> 
> | What should be available for System Download?
> | (what is diff between download and system download)
> 
> Yes, I don't understand the distinction.  Every registered item
> must be downloadable, and the metadata (registry information)
> about it (perhaps with certain contact info deleted) must also
> be downloadable.  
> 
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> 
> | Regrep conformance
> 
> The conformance language is still to be written (or collected; some
> of it is sprinkled throughout the tech spec).  NIST will help on
> this.  I've proposed that we not try for consistency in method of
> submission; if we agree on that there would be no conformance 
> requirement for submission.  We *must* conform to RFC 2483 as
> unofficially revised, so as to present a uniform method of access.
> 
> | Need Sample Data
> 
> Yes.  Can our managing editor arrange for this?
> 
> regards, Terry
> 

Craig Chevrier
Managing Editor, www.XML.org
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
(978)667-5115 (x203)
craig.chevrier@oasis-open.org