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

[Rex Brooks <rex.brooks@ncoic.org>]

Thanks Robin,

That changes my preference to f).

Cheers,
Rex

On 2/16/11 10:34 AM, Robin Cover wrote:
> 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
>
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