Re: [urn] Of RFC3187bis, RFC3188bis and namespace registrations in general

[Juha Hakala <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

Issue tracker has been actively (and I think productively) used in the 
IRI group. So I am in favour of this suggestion, in principle.

In practice isolating and formulating the issues can be complicated to 
those of us (including myself) who have no first hand experience of such 
working method. Perhaps IETF veterans could extract a few tangible 
issues from the discussions we've had on the list of late. Moreover, I 
would rather not formulate the issues myself since IETF folks may have 
more objective view on problems that still need to be solved.

There are cases in which the document level (small) issues and 
architectural principles we have discussed are intertwined. For 
instance, if we agree that URNs can be applied to works, then we should 
also outline a model of how works and their manifestations are connected 
to one another, and derive some conclusions as regards what kind of 
impact this model may have to URN services.

Of course we could also start the discussion from the top, agree on a 
model and then start deriving practical conclusions from there. But this 
approach would require more faith than the bottom - top -one.

Juha

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
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> 
> On 12/21/11 7:28 AM, Andy Newton wrote:
>> Juha (and the WG),
>>
>> One of the problems I see with these discussions is that these
>> threads intertwine noted issues with the documents and larger
>> architectural or philosophical issues. That can get confusing.
>>
>> I would like to ask you, as a document editor, and the working group
>> if we should use the issue tracker for dealing with document issues
>> so that they do not get lost in the larger debates. Comments?
>>
>> As for the larger issues, we can discuss them and after there is
>> consensus on how to move forward with addressing those issues will be
>> able to knock them out through documents.
>>
>> What say you?
>>
>> -andy
> 
> Andy, I think that would indeed be helpful. Although the more
> "philosophical" issues are interesting and important, we also need to
> focus the discussion down to specific text proposals to be incorporated
> into the specificuations under consideration. Using the issue tracker
> might help move us in that direction.
> 
> Peter
> 
> --
> Peter Saint-Andre
> https://stpeter.im/
> 

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