Draft comment to OASIS XRI TC

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We have reviewed

     Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Resolution Version 2.0
                          Committee Draft 02
                           25 November 2007

  http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/cd02/xri-resolution-V2.0-cd-02.html

Although falling largely outside the remit of this Working Group,
there is one aspect of the specification which does concern us: the
use of the 'xri:' prefix in the XML namespace names used therein.

Although the XRI Syntax 2.0 spec. [1] has been a Committee
Specification since late in 2005, we could find no sign of 'xri' being
registered with the IETF as a URI scheme.  Until this is done, it is
perhaps not altogether appropriate to treat strings beginning 'xri:'
as URIs.

In a similar way, albeit outside our remit altogether, we couldn't
find any sign of 'application/xrds+xml' or 'application/xrd+xml' being
registered with IANA as media types.

We understand that there is a potential circular dependency hidden in
all this -- if you have held off on the required registrations until
your specs are closer to full OASIS Standard status, perhaps you would
consider adding a note to that effect.

Paul Grosso,
on behalf of the W3C XML Core Working Grouop
 
[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15376
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