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Christopher Ferris
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"David Orchard" <> wrote on 07/14/2005 03:57:18 PM:
> I agree with date stamps in namespace uris. Minor versions almost
> invariably don't guarantee backwards or forwards compatibility (like xml
> 1.1 to xml 1.0).
>
> If a compatible change is done, then I think the TC should be able to
> keep the same namespace URI. The RDDL doc at the ns URI can show the
> version history.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rich Salz [mailto:]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:46 PM
> > To: Gilbert Pilz
> > Cc:
> > Subject: RE: [ws-rx] NEW ISSUE: XML Namespace URIs
> >
> > > Chris indicated to the editors earlier that he preferred to
> > > use a date stamp to indicate version. You'll have to ask him about
> his
> > > reasons for this preference. I don't care one way or another.
> >
> > I care. Date-based version numbers have no explicit interop
> semantics.
> > There's a long history of major/minor semantics. Cf SAML 1.0, 1.1,
> and
> > 2.0
> >
> > /r$
> >
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