Dissenting argument on namespace URI

OK, I've been thinking some more about document URLs for different
versions of our documents.

In the new OASIS template, there are 4 sets of document URLs.  I'm putting
in some suggestions, which I'll explain afterwards:

----
Specification URIs:

This
Version:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/cd-genericode-1.0/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/cd-genericode-1.0/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.odt
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/cd-genericode-1.0/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.pdf

Previous
Version:
Not applicable

Latest
Version:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/latest/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/latest/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.odt
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/latest/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.pdf

Latest Approved
Version:
Not applicable.
----

The "This Version" URLs are as we have agreed, although I've added the
specific documents this time.  I'm presuming we won't list "Previous
Version" in this case, since there are no previous committe drafts, etc.

For "Latest Version", I'm suggesting that we use a

http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/latest/

area to provide canonical references to latest versions of documents
(committee drafts, committee standards, and/or OASIS standards).  For
example:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/latest/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/latest/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.odt
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/latest/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.pdf

Similarly, I'm going to suggest (although not shown in this case) that we
use a

http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/approved/

area to provide canonical references to the latest committee standard or
OASIS standard versions of documents.  For example:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/approved/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/approved/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.odt
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/approved/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.pdf

However, if we were to go with this plan, then I think it would be more
consistent to change our committe draft 1.0 URLs to

http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/cd-1.0/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.html
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/cd-1.0/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.odt
http://docs.oasis-open.org/codelist/genericode/cd-1.0/doc/oasis-code-list-representation-genericode.pdf

which differs from UBL usage, but would make things like URL re-writing of
canonical URIs more straightforwards.

Does that sound plausible?  This is just a suggestion, alternate proposals
are very welcome.

Cheers, Tony.

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:00:23 +0100, Anthony B. Coates (Miley Watts)