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Re: reference and use of GML artifacts [Re: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/EMIX-477]

From: Toby Considine <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:34:00 -0000

An interesting parallel to consider is schema namespaces themselves. In the IETF they are mere text. The URN format that we are using in ws-calendar, for example, is useless for discovering an artifact. Two guys got together and thought this was bad. They worried about this. They thought maybe namespaces should point at something, maybe a web page telling you about the specification. Then they thought, ??Well.--can we make that web page machine readable as well? ? They met for a while and started RDDL, a consensus set of XHTML semantic extensions. This labor of love got half baked, but good enough to use. Everyone began using it. I * think * they dropped it there, good enough, half specified, not properly ??standardized ?, and used by everyone, including this TC. " It is the theory that decides what can be observed ." - Albert Einstein Toby Considine Chair, OASIS oBIX Technical Committee U.S. National Inst. of Standards and Tech. Smart Grid Architecture Committee Facilities Technology Office University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC Email: Toby.Considine@ unc.edu Phone: (919)962-9073 http://www.oasis-open.org blog: www.NewDaedalus.com From: Gerald Gray [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:16 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [emix] Re: reference and use of GML artifacts [Re: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/EMIX-477] I would like to echo this. By way of example, both the IEC 61968-100 CD (which covers JMS and web services integration for CIM) and various MultiSpeak schemas, the namespace does not point to any specific artifact or resource. From: Toby Considine [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Toby Considine Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 8:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [emix] Re: reference and use of GML artifacts [Re: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/EMIX-477]