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Subject: Re: [chairs] Updated Naming Guidelines for review and discussion
Bill (& TAB): It is my opinion that the file naming guidelines are going a bit too far. The filenames will in many cases be ridiculously long which in turn means that they will not be very usable. We might as well just assign UUIDs to documents when the filenames get to be this long. It seems to me that the TAB's goal is to embed document metadata into the filename. Applying metadata to artifacts is an honorable goal, but is not appropriate for a file name. Documents typically have some other way of asserting metadata about themselves - PDF uses XMP (basically, embedded RDF), MSWord has its own properties interface, XML Schemas have a self documentation capability, etc. OASIS has deployed an ebXML Registry, which is very capable of managing document metadata externally from document content. I think that the TAB would be much better off focusing on normalizing the way we, as a consortia, structure/author and publish documents and assign metadata to them. The W3C model is good, notice how everything there is well organized, and epic filenames are rather rare? Regards, Matthew MacKenzie Sr. Architect, Intelligent Documents Adobe Systems > From: William Cox <wtcox@comcast.net> > Date: October 5, 2004 9:27:43 PM EDT > To: OASIS Chairs <chairs@lists.oasis-open.org> > Cc: Tim Moses <tim.moses@entrust.com> > Subject: [chairs] Updated Naming Guidelines for review and discussion > > > The TAB has significantly updated the Artifact Naming Guidelines. > Thanks for the comments! > > We've added a context-free grammar for the names, extended examples, > and an editorial pass for consistency and references. > > Many of the comments were on the URN section (and its relationship to > RFC 3121). I've pulled that section from the current workind draft 08 > so we can get you the rest of the document now; when the URN section > is updated we'll send that to this list -- probably near the end of > October. > > There are updates to the OASIS TC Process and to the OASIS IPR policy > pending; these Naming Guidelines will be synchronized with those and > released later this year (likely effective date for all of these is > the end of the year). > > Comments are invited - to this list, or email to the editors (myself > and Tim Moses), or to the TAB list if you're a member. > > Thanks! > > bill cox > > >
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