Role of an ODRL Profile

The ODRL specs talk about Profiles - in two ways but this will be reconciled
(http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/two/vocab/#section-3 and
http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/two/vocab/#section-3)

 

A question arising in our RightsML Profile of ODRL discussions at IPTC is:
is there a way to indicate that a profile complies with a specific profile?

This is essential to the features "changing default values" and "documenting
deprecated values" of the Profile definition by ODRL - if no applied profile
is indicated how should a receiver know that default values are different
for this policy or that the action X should be considered as deprecated?

 

If there is/should be no way for indicating profiles I propose to take these
two features out of the Profile chapter - in other words: ODRL profiles only
add something to the ODRL specs/vocabularies.

 

Michael

 

Michael Steidl

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