- From: Mo McRoberts <Mo.McRoberts@bbc.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 07:15:27 +0000
- To: Renato Iannella <ri@semanticidentity.com>
- CC: "ODRL Community Group (Contrib)" <public-odrl-contrib@w3.org>
> So we would not then really use the current URI (http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/) > instead we would go to final versions using http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/21/ > > Cheers... > Renato Iannella I would still use /ns/odrl/2/, because that's a URI which is only used by anything 'new' (i.e., the RDF, the harmonised XML namespace, etc.) I would further suggest that any post-harmonisation changes which actively break (rather than simply marking as deprecated) anything are given a new major version number and new URI -- although I would tend to avoid doing that in practice anyway. Changes which introduce new terms or are otherwise backwards-compatible should have a new minor version number, to allow conformance reporting (e.g., "this application understands ODRL 2.4 or earlier fragments"), but maintain /ns/odrl/2/. M. -- Mo McRoberts - Chief Technical Architect - Archives & Digital Public Space, Zone 2.12, BBC Scotland, 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1DA, MC3 D6, BBC Media Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TQ, 0141 422 6036 (Internal: 01-26036) - PGP key CEBCF03E
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