Re: Proposed Namespace for the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB)

Leslie Daigle <leslie@thinkingcat.com> Mon, 26 November 2007 17:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: Proposed Namespace for the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB)
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Hi,

Yep, this looks much clearer in terms of "considerations"
sections.

Thanks,
Leslie.

Alexander Adolf wrote:
> Dear Leslie,
> 
> On 2007-11-09 15:42 -0500 Leslie Daigle <leslie@thinkingcat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sigh.  Sorry -- this is a little beyond the 2-week window,
>> but the points are rather important.
> 
> Never mind. I'm grateful for all hints that help to improve my I-D. And
> for individual submissions the review window is 4 weeks anyway AFAIK.
> 
>> This document (or, rather, the current -01 version) is
>> extremely light in the Namespace Considerations and
>> Community Considerations sections.
>>
>> Namespace Considerations should have sentences that explain
>> why no existing URN namespace is adequate, and a new
>> formal NID should be assigned. (I can infer an answer
>> from the text you have there, but the document really ought
>> to be explicit).
>>
>> Community Considerations should make it clear why
>> this needs to be a formal URN namespace: what does the
>> Internet community at large gain from having this
>> namespace registered?  Who, outside the DVB immediate
>> community, will benefit from this?  Benefits can include
>> ability to reference DVB xml fragments in standards
>> worldwide.  It doesn't have to solve world hunger ;-)
>> but it should be clear to the reader that this is
>> relevant beyond a closed community.
>> [...]
> 
> I extended both sections based on your suggestions. Please find rev. 02
> attached. I hope to have met your expectations.
> 
> I also submitted the new rev. to the IETF secretariat, so it should be
> on-line soon.
> 
> Should you have further comments, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance and cheers,
> 
>   --alexander adolf
> 
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