Re: [regrep] Shorter URNs proposal

[Matthew MacKenzie <mattm@adobe.com>]

Agreed. The URN's are too long.  Let's shorten them.

-Matt

On 6-Aug-04, at 11:05 PM, Farrukh Najmi wrote:

> As I work on the 3.0 specs it seems that our URN conventions is much  
> too long.
> This is costly because URNs based on the convention are used in every  
> registry object.
> This is specially true with the introduction of lid attribute in  
> Registry Managed Version Control
> feature. I think we should shorten our URNs.
>
> I propose that the following URN prefix:
>
>    urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-regrep
>
> should be shortened to:
>
>    urn:oasis:regrep
>
> Another related issue that has come up is that we use the spec version  
> in our URNs.
> For example for Submitter Defined URLs we have the following URN:
>
> urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-regrep:3.0:rim:RegistryObject:locator
>
> Every time our version changes the Slot metadata in the registry would  
> need to be migrated.
> This is unacceptable from a usability standpoint.
>
> I propose that we only use version in URNs where it is likely to be  
> version dependent.
>
> I further propose that we remove the spec component of the URN (rim or  
> rs).
>
> If we agree with my proposal the locator URN changes as follows...
>
> Old:  urn:oasis:names:tc:ebxml-regrep:3.0:rim:RegistryObject:locator
> New: urn:oasis:regrep:RegistryObject:locator
>
> Notice the space savings is 25 MB for a million objects.
>
> BTW the shortening of URNs is a common theme across OASIS TCs (e.g.  
> SAML 2.0 does this over SAML 1.1)
>
> What do folks think? Can we resolve this over email so we can keep  
> making progress on the specs?
>
> --  
> Regards,
> Farrukh
>
>
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