Re: URI for XML schema and namespace

["tom.petch" <[e-mail]>]

---- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Duerst" <[e-mail]>
To: "tom.petch" <[e-mail]>; "Chris Newman" <[e-mail]>
Cc: "'Apps Discuss'" <[e-mail]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: URI for XML schema and namespace


> Hello Tom,
>
> Are they using things such as http://ietf.org/forces/1.0/lfbmodel
> as resolvable URIs or are they using them without planning to
> have them resolvable?
>
> Regards,    Martin.

Without resolution as far as I can tell.

To quote from an e-mail on the ForCES list,

> The second issue appears to be our use of an http uri rather than a
> field delimited urn as the namespace.  The use of HTTP URIs seems fully
> conformant.  And the use of web space URIs seems recommended by RFC
> 3470.  The use of URNs for namespaces is offered there as a fallback
> alternative.  So it is not clear to me what the problem is with our usage.
>

So RFC3470 was taken as recommending an HTTP URI; but, after the recent
discussion on this list, for which many thanks to all who contributed, I think
that ForCES will switch to a urn:

Tom Petch

>
> At 20:16 08/01/07, tom.petch wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Chris Newman" <[e-mail]>
> >To: "David Harrington" <[e-mail]>; "'Julian Reschke'"
> ><[e-mail]>
> >Cc: "'Apps Discuss'" <[e-mail]>
> >Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 12:46 AM
> >Subject: RE: URI for XML schema and namespace
> >
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >>
> >> To summarize the options:
> >> 1. URNs for XML namespaces -- present IETF common practice
> >> 2. non-IETF http URLs for XML namespaces -- acceptable
> >> 3. iana.org http URLs for XML namespaces -- nobody has tried this, seems
> >> feasible to me.
> >> 4. ietf.org http URLs for XML namespaces -- nobody has tried this.  I think
> >> it's a bad idea.
> >>
> >>                 - Chris
> >
> >The I-D that prompted me to raise this, draft-ietf-forces-model-09.txt,
contains
> >
> > <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> >       xmlns="http://ietf.org/forces/1.0/lfbmodel"
> >       xmlns:lfb="http://ietf.org/forces/1.0/lfbmodel"
> >       targetNamespace="http://ietf.org/forces/1.0/lfbmodel"
> >       attributeFormDefault="unqualified"
> >       elementFormDefault="qualified">
> >      <xsd:annotation>
> >
> >so ForCES might be trying 4) (and I am trying to persuade them otherwise).
> >
> >Tom Petch
> >
> ><snip>
>
>
> #-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
> #-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:[e-mail]
>