RE: [xri] Errata proposals

["Dave McAlpin" <dave.mcalpin@epok.net>]

Responses inline.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wachob, Gabe [mailto:gwachob@visa.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 12:33 PM
> To: 'Dave McAlpin'; xri@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [xri] Errata proposals
> 
> Thanks for doing this Dave.
> 
> I have only a few items of feedback:
> 
> 31: Yes, we should clarify HTTP style redirects that contains XRIs

Can you take that?

> 
> 73: Can we just make an explicit reference to SAML that talks about this
> concept of "negligible probability"?

We could, but it would be our first dependency on SAML. Seems like an odd
place to start.

> 
> 90: Shouldn't this be "would be constructed as
> "xri@example2.home.base/foo.bar" (using a @ instead of an =)?
> 

Good catch. I fixed by changing @ to = instead of the other way around.

> 106: Shouldn't the example XRI start with a "@"?
> 

Yep. Changed to = to match fix above.

> I haven't gone over the schema in detail - but we'll definitely want to do
> that just before publishing as a final technical check.

Yeah, I'd appreciate that. At this point the changes aren't too drastic so
it's probably easier to look at a diff between the old and the new.

> 
> 	-Gabe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave McAlpin [mailto:dave.mcalpin@epok.net]
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 9:36 AM
> To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [xri] Errata proposals
> 
> 
> I just posted proposed errata that
> 
> 1) Adds the ability to do "redirects" at the XML level during resolution,
> and
> 2) Adds an ID attribute at the root of the XRIDescriptor.
> 
> The redirect issue was mostly an oversight. I intended to have it in the
> original spec and just overlooked it. The proposal adds a new element,
> xri:AlternativeXRI, explains the behavior associated with this element and
> clarifies the intent of xri:Mapping.
> 
> The ID attribute makes it easy to unambiguously refer to the
> XRIDescriptor's
> root in XPath. The trusted res draft makes use of this attribute.
> 
> I'm not sure what the process is for approving errata, but comments are
> welcome while we sort out the logistics.
> 
> Dave
> 
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