Re: [soa-rm-ra] Version

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

Title: Re: [soa-rm-ra] Version

... For externally visible properties only...

;-)


On 25/06/08 9:10 AM, "Rex Brooks" <rexb@starbourne.com> wrote:

> I think version is best kept to a denotation of a specific set of
> features in a specification because that's what's important.
>
> Cheers,
> Rex
>
> At 8:50 AM -0700 6/25/08, Duane Nickull wrote:
> >I think first of all, a version is not a specialized type of identity.
> >
> >I would roll identity and identifier into one (identifier is the token of
> >the identity)
> >
> >Version is an attribute of "resource" IMO.  It usually is denoted with a
> >major_version.minor_version.release in software but I think it is too
> >granular so I would just stop at version and not include version identifiers
> >or date-time string etc.
> >
> >Duane
> >
> >
> >On 25/06/08 8:21 AM, "Francis McCabe" <frankmccabe@mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  This is a just a noodle. But, I was trying to see how versions fitted
> >>  with the resource model and came up with ...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Version
> >>
> >>  An identity associated with a resource that establishes a time and/or
> >>  place where the resource is located.
> >>
> >>  Resources are generally time varying in nature - accessing a resource
> >>  at one time will often lead to a different outcome than accessing it
> >>  at another time. As a result, it may be necessary to identify a
> >>  resource at a point in time - in effect to identify a specific version
> >>  of a resource.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Frank
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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