[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (DSSX-6) Migrate to HTTP schema URI references for declared XML namespaces in our workproducts (here localsig profile)

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Migrate to HTTP schema URI references for declared XML namespaces in our workproducts (here localsig profile)
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                 Key: DSSX-6
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/DSSX-6
             Project: OASIS Digital Signature Services eXtended (DSS-X) TC
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Profile Local Signature
    Affects Versions: V1_WD01
            Reporter: Stefan Drees
             Fix For: V1_WD01


In [Section 7 XML Namespace Identifiers and Namespace Documents of OASIS Naming Directives](http://docs.oasis-open.org/specGuidelines/ndr/namingDirectives.html#xml-namespaces) it says:

"""
An XML namespace name identified by an HTTP scheme URI reference must conform to the pattern: http://docs.oasis-open.org/[tc-shortname]/ns/xxxx
"""

and further on some exception to this rule:
"""
URN-based XML namespaces may be declared by existing TCs that have already used this feature, or by associated Maintenance Activity TCs, where architectural considerations require continued use of URNs. URN-based XML namespaces must not be declared otherwise, since they lack a standard, ubiquitous resolution method using DNS[+HTTP]. In URNs, the colon (":") character is expected.
"""
Allthough we for sure qualify as existing as well as maintenance activity TC, I suggest using the HTTP schema URI references for namespace declarations in our work products from now on.


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