Re: [ws-rx-editors] [Fwd: Re: Help please [about date-less/version-lessspec URIs]]

From
Doug Davis <>
Date
2007-02-21T00:44:31+00:00
ID
Thread
Re: [ws-rx-editors] [Fwd: Re: Help please [about date-less/version-lessspec URIs]]
All,

  I've gone thru the RM spec and
reformatted things per the latest template.  In terms of edits to
the doc, I tried to not do any textual changes with the exception of the
following:

- renamed it CD06 - should probably
have been optimistic and called it CS  :-)

- latest URI is now: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/wsrm.pdf
        Robin - is this an ok URI?

- moved the normative and non-normative
sections to the top of the doc - per the template

- Robin/Mary - is it ok that we have
other sections (like 'conformance' and 'namespace' in section 1 ?)

- reformatting the contributors section
- each person got their own line now - Robin/Mary - can we do multiple-columns
or does it have to be this way? Its a lot of space.

The doc is here:  http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ws-rx-editors/download.php/22537/wsrm-1.1-spec-cd-06.doc

Mary/Robin - could I ask you guys to
look over this doc to see if it conforms to the new template?  I tried
to match all of the sections and formatting styles as best I could.

Editors - please give this doc a scan.
 Things to look for:

- At times I had to manually re-add
some text/URLs (like in the references sections) to get things to format
correctly.

- And watch for variables in the examplars
(e.g. xs:string) not being in italics

- paragraph numbering and bullets -
tried to make sure we were consistent across the entire doc w.r.t. indenting
etc...

- missing hyper-links - examples and
code snippets were removed on purpose, but others should probably be there.

- check bookmarks - I had to redo them
all by hand - for some reason they were all messed up after I moved the
(non) normative sections

Once people look this over and are ok
with it, then I'll move on to RMP and MC.

thanks

-Doug

______________________________________________________

STSM  |  Web Services Architect  |  IBM Software Group

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Paul Fremantle <>

02/19/2007 10:51 AM

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[ws-rx-editors] [Fwd: Re: Help please
[about date-less/version-less spec URIs]]

FYI here is Robin's advice for our URIs.

Paul

-------- Original Message --------

Subject: Re: Help please [about date-less/version-less spec URIs]

Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:42:08 -0500 (EST)

From: Robin Cover <>

To: Paul Fremantle <>

CC: Robin Cover <>

References: <>

Paul,

Re:

> I would have thought that we'd want a URL that was date-less as well
as

> version-less.

I apologize for failing to respond to your request for advice

in a timely manner.  The request is quite reasonable, as

seems to be proven by the successful W3C practice of publishing

its recommendation-track specifications at URIs like:

Latest version: http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-semantics/

Latest version: http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-addr-core

Latest version: http://www.w3.org/TR/xkms2/

Latest version: http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part0/

Initially, when I saw the proposal for "Something like"

>          http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm

>          http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrmp

>          http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsmc

I was stumped, because we have a commitment to use the

"directory URIs" [slash "/" and slashless ""]
as identifiers

for directory listings, as in this current example:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm

*That index listing is ugly now, but we have plans to make it

more usable.

The Naming Guidelines do require that specifications be

assigned a "Latest Version:" URI, which is a URI alias pointing

to the resource that is the current/latest at any point in

time.  See:

"Specification URIs"

http://docs.oasis-open.org/specGuidelines/namingGuidelines/metadata.html#specURIs

The OASIS membership provided clear feedback (ASIS review) that we should

impose no single format for the "Latest Version:" URI -- allowing
the TCs

to select something reasonable, suitable to their needs and sensibilities.

Some of the examples provided for "Latest Version:" URI are

dateless, as you can see in the section "Specification URIs"
cited above:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/exampleTC/fruitMarkup/v2/fruit2.html

No examples are "version-less" though -- in part, because some
reviewers

asked that we NOT assume genetic continuity between [e.g.] DITA 1.0

and DITA 3.0, such as might be implied by a generic/version-agnostic

URI like this, which otherwise could serve as the 

latest/dateless/version-less

URI for all 'DITA' specs.

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/TR

Their argument was that an entirely different group of people might

work on "DITA 3.0" than worked on "DITA 1.0", the the
DITA-3 people

might not want to be forced to use a URI that implies "DITA 3.2"
is

the "latest" version of the DITA 1.0 product, in close continuity
with

it.

We use the term "Version" in a fairly specific way in connection
with

identifying a specification version:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/specGuidelines/namingGuidelines/metadata.html#version

I *do* encourage you to bring up this issue with the WS-RX TC editors,

however, since selection of a "Latest Version:" URI is needed
for

wsrm, wsrmp, and wsmc.  In the WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1 spec here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200702/wsrm-1.1-spec-cd-05.pdf

the text says:

      Latest Version:

       http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200702

and that's not what we have in mind; that's the NS URI.

The spec title page has a dsignated place for the associated

NS URI(s), e.g.,

     Declared XML Namespaces:

      http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200702

I'll try to make myself available, if needed, to help

think through (or review candidates for) possible

Latest Version URIs suitable for the WS-RX TC's specs.

Caveats:

* The TAB and Board are considering options for a method of

   using the concept/term "normative" [or "official"]

   format (XHTML vs. PDF vs. EditableSource).  The

   results might lead to a change in the Naming Guidelines

   so that there would be only one "Latest Version:" URI

   printed on a spec title page, not 2-3 URIs, as in:

   Latest Version:

   http://example.com/fishing/fishML.pdf

   http://example.com/fishing/fishML.doc

   http://example.com/fishing/fishML.html

* The OASIS IT programming team is preparing a new

   URI aliasing tool (serving some of the functions

   of Apache mod_alias, mod_rewrite, etc.) to give

   us greater flexibility in handling the URI

   aliasing mechanisms [server-side URI rewrite

   in addition to client-side redirect], but it's

   not certain when that will be activated.

   ***Privately***: see a prototype here:

   http://docs3.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/

   Please don't publish that -- it might be buggy.

Again, I sincerely apologize for not responding on time;

please forgive me.

Best wishes.

Robin Cover

-------------

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Paul Fremantle wrote:

> Robin

>

> Can you advise us on this one please?

>

> Paul

>

> -------- Original Message --------

> Subject:              
   RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: CD5.3

> Date:                
 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:19:01 -0500

> From:                
 Doug Davis <>

> To:                
 Marc Goodner <>

> CC:                
 'Mary McRae' <>, 

> <>, Paul Fremantle <>,
'Robin

> Cover' <>, 

> <>

>

>

>

>

> I would have thought that we'd want a URL that was date-less as well
as

> version-less.  Something like:

>          http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm

>          http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrmp

>          http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsmc

>

> That way even if we have a v.Next the URL would still not need to

> change.  Mary - is this possible?

>

> thanks

> -Doug

> ______________________________________________________

> STSM  |  Web Services Architect  |  IBM Software
Group

> (919) 254-6905  |  IBM T/L 444-6905  |  

>

>

> *Marc Goodner <>*

>

> 02/11/2007 10:40 PM

>

>

> To

>                  Paul
Fremantle <>, ""

> <>

> cc

>                  Doug
Davis/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, "'Mary McRae'" <>,

> ""

> <>, "'Robin Cover'"

> <>

> Subject

>                  RE:
[ws-rx-editors] RE: CD5.3

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> My reading is that Dug has made all of the requested changes except
one

> we are still discussing. The open issue is what to use for the latest

> link in the doc.

>

> My recommendation is to just use the current namespace. Mary has

> suggested a permanent latest URI could be assigned for this use. I'm
not

> inherently opposed to that but I'd prefer some more discussion before

> putting it into practice.

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Paul Fremantle [mailto:]

> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:30 PM

> To: 

> Cc: Marc Goodner; 'Doug Davis'; 'Mary McRae';

> ; 'Robin Cover'

> Subject: Re: [ws-rx-editors] RE: CD5.3

>

> I'd like to thank Marc, Doug and Mary for all your efforts this weekend.

>

> Can anyone give me a brief status update? I've seen a ton of useful

> messages but I haven't quite figured out what is still needed before
the PR.

>

> Thanks

> Paul

>

> Mary McRae wrote:

>   > We can also invent another URI to be used - like

>   > docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/v1.1/wsrm-v1.1.doc etc.
- that way even

>   > if the date changes we're still talking about the latest
version of the

>   > 1.1 spec ...

>   >

>   > m

>   >

>   >

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

>   >     *From:* Marc Goodner [mailto:]

>   >     *Sent:* Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:18 PM

>   >     *To:* Doug Davis; 

>   >     *Cc:* 'Mary McRae'; 

>   >     *Subject:* RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: CD5.3

>   >

>   >     So on 2, yeah we don't have anything like
that. I think the best we

>   >     can do is a link to the namespace as that
could eventually contain

>   >     the previous/latest links there. The only
other immediate

>   >     alternative I can think of would be the
Public TC page.

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     My vote for now would be to use the namespace.
The reason is that if

>   >     we progress with the same namespace from
this PR, and I'm pretty

>   >     hopeful we will, then the CS will be in
that location with a link to

>   >     the previous CD for the same namespace.
That seems to best satisfy

>   >     the intent.

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     *From:* Doug Davis [mailto:]

>   >     *Sent:* Sunday, February 11, 2007 5:38 PM

>   >     *To:* 

>   >     *Cc:* 'Mary McRae'; Marc Goodner; 

>   >     *Subject:* RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: CD5.3

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     1. I'll remove the [insert...] since, as
Marc said, I don't think we

>   >     have any.

>   >     2. The guideline says:

>   >     A bookmarkable, version-agnostic, generic
URI serving as a URI alias

>   >     which is always associated with the latest/current
specification

>   >     instance, thus having a changing referent;
it serves to identify and

>   >     directly locate each successive published
instance of a developing

>   >     specification, through time [Label: Latest
Version]

>   >     Do we have a URL like that?  As far
as I know all of our URLs have

>   >     dates in them.  Can Oasis assign us
a non-dated set of URLs?

>   >     3. Done - as much as I could anyway :-)

>   >

>   >     Latest zip is here:

>   >

> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ws-rx-editors/download.php/22331/CD05.zip

>   >

>   >     (you guys are probably sick of me sending
huge zip files)

>   >     Will replace the individual files in the
CD5 folder once people 'ok'

>   >     it but I think I still need those static
URLs mentioned in #2.

>   >

>   >     thanks

>   >     -Doug

>   >     ______________________________________________________

>   >     STSM  |  Web Services Architect
 |  IBM Software Group

>   >     (919) 254-6905  |  IBM T/L 444-6905
 |  

>   >

>   >     *"Mary McRae" <>*

>   >     Sent by: Mary McRae <>

>   >

>   >     02/11/2007 07:54 PM

>   >

>   >     Please respond to

>   >     <>

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     To

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Doug Davis/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, "'Marc
Goodner'"

> <>

>   >

>   >     cc

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     "'Mary McRae'" <>,

>   >     <>

>   >

>   >     Subject

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: CD5.3

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Before you do that ;-)

>   >

>   >     1. in all three spec files -- pay attention
to the last para of the

>   >     Notices section. It refers to OASIS' new
Trademark policy. In the

>   >     first line you'll see "[insert specific
trademarked names,

>   >     abbreviations, etc. here]" - any terms
that the TC believes should

>   >     be trademarked should be listed there and
the boilerplate text

> removed.

>   >

>   >     2. also, for "latest version"
the intent is to use a URI that will

>   >     always bring up the most recent copy of
the spec (see samples in

>   >     naming guidelines documents). Oops - just
found another bad link on

>   >     the templates page.

>   >

> http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/OASISSpecificationTemplateGuidelines.html

>   >     section 3.4.3 or here:

>   >

> http://docs.oasis-open.org/specGuidelines/namingGuidelines/metadata.html#specURIs

>   >

>   >

>   >     3. I apparently also messed up when I created
the new templates for

>   >     OO (and possibly Word). There were supposed
to be two more

>   >     categories on the cover page between Editors
and Abstract:

>   >     Related Work

>   >     and

>   >     Declared XML Namespaces

>   >     (can be seen here:

>   >

> http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/OASISSpecificationTemplateV3.0.html)

>   >

>   >

>   >     No penalties for not including #3, but bonus
points awarded if you

>   >     do ;-)

>   >

>   >     I'm going to go watch the Grammys ... I
think you guys have it under

>   >     control and we'll be all set for announcement
tomorrow.

>   >

>   >     m

>   >

>   >

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

>   >

>   >     *From:* Doug Davis [mailto:]
*

>   >     Sent:* Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:29 PM*

>   >     To:* Marc Goodner*

>   >     Cc:* Mary McRae; ;

>   >     *

>   >     Subject:* RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: CD5.3

>   >

>   >

>   >     Actually, I was hoping you might be able
to generate new HTML by

>   >     importing it into Word  :-)

>   >

>   >     thanks

>   >     -Doug

>   >     ______________________________________________________

>   >     STSM  |  Web Services Architect
 |  IBM Software Group

>   >     (919) 254-6905  |  IBM T/L 444-6905
 |  

>   >

>   >     *Marc Goodner <>*

>   >

>   >     02/11/2007 07:22 PM

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     To

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Doug Davis/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, ""

>   >     <>

>   >

>   >     cc

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Mary McRae <>,

>   >     ""

>   >     <>

>   >

>   >     Subject

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: CD5.3

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Thanks for the quick turnaround on the doc
Dug.  Mary, thanks a ton

>   >     for staying engaged with us over the weekend.

>   >

>   >     A quick scan and this looks good to me.
It looks like the correct

>   >     Notices now, but I defer to Mary on that.

>   >

>   >     This one doesn't have the HTML in it. We're
we just going to update

>   >     the previous generated HTML by hand?

>   >      *

>   >     From:* Doug Davis [mailto:]
*

>   >     Sent:* Sunday, February 11, 2007 3:17 PM*

>   >     To:* *

>   >     Cc:* Mary McRae; *

>   >     Subject:* RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: CD5.3

>   >

>   >

>   >     ***********************

>   >     Warning: Your file, CD05.zip, contains more
than 32 files after

>   >     decompression and cannot be scanned.

>   >     ***********************

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     ok - let's give this one a try.

>   >

>   >

>   >     thanks

>   >     -Doug

>   >     ______________________________________________________

>   >     STSM  |  Web Services Architect
 |  IBM Software Group

>   >     (919) 254-6905  |  IBM T/L 444-6905
 |  

>   >

>   >     *"Mary McRae" <>*

>   >     Sent by: Mary McRae <>

>   >

>   >     02/11/2007 06:05 PM

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Please respond to

>   >     <>

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     To

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Doug Davis/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS

>   >

>   >     cc

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     <>

>   >

>   >     Subject

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     RE: [ws-rx-editors] RE: CD5.3

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Almost - new Copyright line says:

>   >     Copyright (c) OASIS(r) 1993-2007. All Rights
Reserved. OASIS

> trademark,

>   >     IPR and other policies apply.

>   >

>   >     And then you'll need to make sure that it's
the same in both the

>   >     spec and the schema/wsdl themselves.

>   >

>   >     m

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

>   >

>   >

>   >     *

>   >     From:* Doug Davis [mailto:]
*

>   >     Sent:* Sunday, February 11, 2007 5:03 PM*

>   >     To:* *

>   >     Cc:* *

>   >     Subject:* [ws-rx-editors] RE: CD5.3*

>   >     Importance:* High

>   >

>   >

>   >     Mary,

>   >     am I correct in assuming that if I replace:

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position regarding the validity or scope

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>   >     That'd we'd be ok?

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>   >     thanks

>   >     -Doug

>   >     ______________________________________________________

>   >     STSM  |  Web Services Architect
 |  IBM Software Group

>   >     (919) 254-6905  |  IBM T/L 444-6905
 |  

>   >

>   >     *"Mary McRae" <>*

>   >     Sent by: Mary McRae <>

>   >

>   >     02/11/2007 04:47 PM

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Please respond to

>   >     <>

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     To

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Doug Davis/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, <>

>   >

>   >     cc

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Subject

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     RE: CD5.3

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Hi Doug,

>   >

>   >     I haven't unzipped yet, but the schema /
wsdl *do* need the Notices

>   >     section that's inserted as a comment at
the beginning of the files

>   >     changed from the legacy IPR policy language
to the 4-15-2005 policy

>   >     language ... I'm willing to go the extra
mile to get this out by end

>   >     of day Monday since you're working hard
to get everything

> accomplished.

>   >

>   >     Mary

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

>   >

>   >

>   >     *

>   >     From:* Doug Davis [mailto:]
*

>   >     Sent:* Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:26 AM*

>   >     To:* *

>   >     Cc:* *

>   >     Subject:* CD5.3*

>   >     Importance:* High

>   >

>   >     ***********************

>   >     Warning: Your file, CD05.zip, contains more
than 32 files after

>   >     decompression and cannot be scanned.

>   >     ***********************

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >

>   >     Editors:

>   >     Here's CD5.3 with the changes Mary wanted.
 I did not update the

>   >     schema/wsdl as that was just a suggestion
and I wanted to keep the

>   >     diffs as small as possible.

>   >     Take a look and see if all looks well.

>   >

>   >

>   >     thanks

>   >     -Doug

>   >     ______________________________________________________

>   >     STSM  |  Web Services Architect
 |  IBM Software Group

>   >     (919) 254-6905  |  IBM T/L 444-6905
 |  

>   >

>

> --

> Paul Fremantle

> VP/Technology and Partnerships, WSO2

> OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair

>

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> 

> (646) 290 8050

>

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>

>

> --

> Paul Fremantle

> VP/Technology and Partnerships, WSO2

> OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair

>

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> 

> (646) 290 8050

>

> "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com

>

>

-- 

Paul Fremantle

VP/Technology and Partnerships, WSO2

OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair

http://bloglines.com/blog/paulfremantle



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