LegalRuleML namespace

[Tara Athan <taraathan@gmail.com>]

I have located the OASIS policy on XML namespaces.

http://docs.oasis-open.org/specGuidelines/ndr/namingDirectives.html#xml-namespaces

According to my reading, the LegalRuleML namespace must comply with the following:

"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

Where:

• "[tc-shortname]" is the official spelling of the TC abbreviation as used in the (Kavi) group and typically in the TC email list URI (e.g., bias in the namespace name http://docs.oasis-open.org/bias/ns/bias-1.0/, owned and managed by the OASIS Biometric Identity Assurance Services (BIAS) Integration TC)
• "xxxx" is a short string identifying an XML namespace, which should incorporate a versioning subcomponent (e.g., a string like 201011 representing a date or v1.1 representing a version number)
• "xxxx" may use any of the same sixty-four characters as names for files and directories/folders, plus internal "/", provided that it terminates with the character "/", "#", or an alphanumeric character [A-Za-z0-9].

For example,
http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/ns/v1.0

or

http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalruleml/ns/2012-01-19
(date is that of the first LegalRuleML TC meeting)

As I start to develop more examples and schemas, there will be more and more files that use the LegalRuleML namespace.
Up to now I have been using a blatantly temporary namespace, like

http://example.legalruleml.org/lrml

I would like to start using an official LegalRuleML namespace, so that I don't have to go back and change large numbers of files at a later date.
May I suggest that we use the mailing list to choose a namespace?

My personal preference is for the namespace with date, as that allows the namespace to stay the same through several versions as long as the versions are backward compatible.

Tara