Re: [forces] draft-ietf-forces-model-extension

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2014-10-27 20:59, Haleplidis Evangelos wrote:
> Greetings Julian,
>
> Apologies for the late reply.
>
> As Jamal and Joel both noted, the model does not affect the protocol at all.
>
> The change of the namespace was suggested by Adrian during his AD review
> (https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/forces/current/msg04837.html) which I
> agreed to. I am more comfortable with keeping the new namespace as that will
> clearly specify that extensions are expected.
>
> Now, how about if we added the following text in the document. Would that
> address your concerns?
> 	
> "The extensions described in this document, are backwards compatible in
> terms of the operation of the ForCES protocol.  In terms of the XML, any
> definitions that were valid under the old name space are valid under the new
> namespace.  It is to be noted that any auxiliary tools that are processing
> xml definitions written under both namespaces will need to be able to
> understand both."
>
> Regards,
> Evangelos Haleplidis.

Hi,

that's indeed an improvement. Go ahead!

Best regards, Julian