Re: [oasis-member-discuss] Membership and Public Review of OASISArtifact Standard Identification Scheme for Metadata

Ian -

Per my previous message to Chris Ferris, there aren't a lot of 
punctuation characters available for URIs, and automated parsing is a 
goal.  I'm sure that this issue will receive more attention.

Ian Robinson wrote:

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>The WS-TX TC suspended consideration of transaction protocol messages for a
>while today to discuss hyphens.
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>We have an existing TC Root on the new document server being used for
>predictable (and persistent) URIs:
>      http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-tx/
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>The recommendation of the draft ASIS document is to use a TC tree root of
>"wstx" rather than "ws-tx".
>The TC decided that, given the draft status of the ASIS document,  we will
>continue to use our existing root with the hyphen for now.
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>The WS-TX TC requests the TAB to consider a change to the ASIS document
>section. Currently, it states in section 8.2:
>8.2 Technical Committee Tree
>The short name of the OASIS technical committee, as established by the TC
>Administrator, typically upon initial formation, MUST be the next node in
>the URI after the base:
>docs.oasis-open.org/[tcShortName]
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>where, earlier in the document is a definition:
>"The short name assigned by the TC Administrator to the Technical
>Committee, with any hyphens eliminated."
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>The WS-TX TC would like section 8.2 to remove the requiement to eliminate
>any hyphen from the tcShortName that follows "docs.oasis-open.org/" in
>persistent URI schemes.
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>Regards,
>Ian Robinson
>STSM, WebSphere Messaging and Transactions Architect
>IBM Hursley Lab, UK
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