[occi-wg] Naming format for occi xsd file

[Gary Mazz]

Snipping again. I'm trying to keep all the ideas on a single thread:

Constantinos (Costas) Kotsokalis wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> I think this is a well-put wrap-up of the discussion. There might also 
> be a 3rd way: To use the current OGF year/month approach for official 
> releases, and consider something like what I proposed for development 
> (unofficial) releases. In this context, the "version" part would be 
> the target release (i.e. where the standard is heading towards).
>
> Of course, the issue you brought up re: xsd namespaces for official 
> releases would still apply. It may be reasonable to extend under the 
> structure proposed by the OGF, with one additional level for this 
> purpose. This should not affect the current setup of the OGF schemas 
> location, unless I'm missing something.
>
> Disclaimer: I haven't gone through the document that David mentioned, 
> yet.
>
> Cheers,
>
>  Costas
>
Gary Mazz wrote:
> Hi
>
> I Just snipped this from David Snelling's email to the list. He 
> preempted my request for a pointer to the spec he sent out below.:)
>
> -g
>
> David Snelling wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Also see http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.84.pdf for the OGF 
>> document  describing how this all work.
>>
>>   
>
> Gary Mazz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for all the replies.  They bring up two issues, the naming 
>> convention, the intent of the initial email and a new topic, the host 
>> name for the repository. I would like to discuss them separately. 
>> I'll send out another email for the "host name" topic.
>>
>> From Andre's and Costas' replies, both recommends a date format. 
>> Also, looking at the OCCI XML scheme for SLA at SOI, they use a date 
>> encoding similar to the one described by Costas.
>>
>> From the current votes, the name space, the year and the month are in 
>> common with Costas' proposal and the OFG's current scheme. I guess 
>> the revision and sub revision are a nice artifacts to have in terms 
>> of human understanding of the specification.
>> Functionally, I do believe we will have schemes for multiple name 
>> spaces, a new requirement the current OFG convention does not 
>> currently address.
>>
>> Andre@ Would the OGF consider extending the naming policy for schemes 
>> to include schema name spaces ?  Also, would the OGFconsider 
>> modifying  the current  naming rules to  make them a little more 
>> human friendly, as in Costas' proposal ?
>> BTW, I searched for a OGF policy for naming schemes, I couldn't find 
>> one. If anyone knows of one, I'd appreciate a pointer to it.
>>
>> cheers,
>> gary
>>
>> Sam Johnston wrote:
>>> Also note that thus far we've been using purl.org so as not to deter
>>> external contributors.
>>>
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> On Monday, April 5, 2010, Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net> wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Note that there is http://ogf.org/schemas/, which was created for
>>>> exactly those purposes.
>>>>
>>>> Best, Andre.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Quoting [Constantinos (Costas) Kotsokalis] (Apr 05 2010):
>>>>   
>>>>> Hi Gary,
>>>>>
>>>>> How about:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ogf.org/occi/[version]/[xsd namespace]/[yyyymmdd-c]
>>>>>
>>>>> where 'c' is an incremental revision counter that wraps each day? For
>>>>> instance:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ogf.org/occi/1.0/XML/20100405-2
>>>>>
>>>>> The first revision of Apr 06, 2010 would then end with 20100406-1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Costas
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5 Apr 2010, at 06:54, Gary Mazz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm writing the xsd files for occi as well as the rdfs 
>>>>>> definition. We
>>>>>> will probably also end up with a number of xsd files, one for
>>>>>> occi/xhtml5 another for xml or at the least, different versions of
>>>>>> one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To keep the naming convention consistent,  we need to agree on a
>>>>>> combining the occi name, occi version, xsd name space (XML, RDFa, 
>>>>>> etc)
>>>>>> and xsd version into a coherent naming rule.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Suggestions are welcome :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> gary
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