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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