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        Please review these minutes of the March 13th, 2010 meeting of the Infrastructure Framework Subcommittee for approval at our upcoming meeting, subject to any specified changes.
        

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        Document Name: DRAFT-03-13-12-Minutes-IF-Subcommittee.odt

        
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        At the March 13th, 2012 meeting of the Infrastructure Framework

Subcommittee continued its review of the public comments received on the

Distribution Element 2.0. The members discussed the following topics: 

1.  TOPIC: What support does the DE 2.0 provide for signing versus

encryption?    (Answer: As noted in the previous minutes, the Distribution

Element 2.0 (DE 2.0) supports signing the whole DE 2.0 message explicitly.

Signing ensures that nothing in the DE message was changed en route.  The

DE 2.0 does not provide explicit support for encryption, although payloads

can be encrypted externally and then used as content objects inside the DE

2.0 as needed.)  

2.  TOPIC EMFW-12,11,10,9: What is the intent of enabling linking in the DE

2.0 and what does this imply for determining which DE elements should

contain xlink attributes?    (Answer: Our intent was to enable linking of

objects and linking  of independent DE components, namely EDXLDistribution,

Descriptor and Content. The xlink attributes should be placed accordingly

to enable linking that satisfies this intent.    We will relook at the

location of the xlink attributes to ensure they support this intent and

revisit this issue at our next meeting.)

3.  TOPIC EMFW-8: Should we reorder the Descriptor elements?    (Answer:

No. The suggestion was made in a comment to consider reordering the

Descriptor elements. The group reviewed the current order of the elements

and did not identify a significant issue or improvement to justify

reordering the elements. A motion was passed to leave the order of the

Descriptor elements as is because no particular improved order was

determined.) 

4.  TOPIC EMFW-7: Was having the Descriptor element as a wrapper element

intentional?    (Answer: The Descriptor element contains a sequence of

other elements and was intended to be a separate global element to support

the use of other wrappers.  A motion was passed that no change to the

Descriptor element is needed. ) 

5.  TOPIC EMFW-6: Is TargetArea using the latest EDXLGeoLocation schema?

(Answer: We may need more clarification on this comment. The schema appear

to be current. Martena will request additional clarification from Don.)

6.  TOPIC EMFW-5: Should RefDateTimeSent be optional instead of required as

part of the DistributionReference?    (Answer: We would like additional

clarification on this comment.  The three elements of the

DistributionReference are intended to uniquely identify a reference to a

prior message. This would suggest that they are all required, which is

currently the case. )

7.  TOPIC EMFW-4: Is the following line of the DE 2.0 schema needed: ?

(Answer: This line is part of the definition of ?AnyXMLType? and appears to

be appropriate since it allows any attribute to be included as part of this

type.  We would like additional clarification on this comment.   )

8. TOPIC EMFW-3: How should we resolve double importing of xlink in our

different standards? (Answer: The comment suggests removing the xlink

import statement from edxl-gsf standard or elsewhere. Double imports are a

known problem in general when combining xml schema. Lew will consider an

appropriate solution in regard to the GML Simple Features profile

(edxl-gsf). )

9.  TOPIC EMFW-2: No action needed, this was a test comment.

10.  TOPIC EMFW-1: Should we cleanup the specified spacing issues within

our specification? (Answer: Yes, the cleanup items referenced in this

comment do not impact the substantive content and improve readability of

the specification. )

References:

(1) JIRA DE 2.0 Issues List:

http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&pid=10084        

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        Date submitted: 2012-03-20 02:43:55