RE: [xri] thoughts on linked XRD rel value

[Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>]

I prefer the relation name to be more explicit, like 'see-also'. The proposed prefix looks good.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Norris [mailto:will@willnorris.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:38 AM
> To: XRI TC
> Subject: [xri] thoughts on linked XRD rel value
> 
> I believe it was generally agreed upon that we need to come up with a
> new rel value for linked XRDs.  Here's some of my thoughts on that...
> 
> 
> Do we simply reuse the XRD XML namespace[0]?  I'm thinking no... it's
> just bad practice, and we may eventually need to define other rel
> values in the spec (not likely, but still).
> 
> The OASIS guidelines for URI design[1] dictate that URIs (other than
> XML namespaces) should start with "http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/";.
> I'm figuring we'll need to add an "xrd" path segment under that, as
> well as a "rel" (or "relation") segment.  There's no need to version
> these values as far as I know.  So I'm thinking of something along the
> lines of (in no particular order):
> 
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/xrd/rel/xrd
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/xrd/rel/linked
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/xrd/rel/linked-xrd
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/xrd/rel/equivalent
> 
> Any thoughts on this?  Suggestions for alternate rel values we could
> tack onto the end there?  +/- 1 on any of the above URIs?
> 
> Thanks,
> will
> 
> 
> [0]: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0
> [1]: http://docs.oasis-
> open.org/specGuidelines/namingGuidelines/resourceNaming.html#URI-Design
> 
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