Re: Referencing URI and IRI in XML specs

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 14:13 +0100, Richard Tobin wrote:
> > Looking at the editors draft of XML 1.0, XML 1.1, XML Namespaces 1.0,
> > and XML Namespaces 1.1, I noticed that all of them reference RFC 2396.
> > Shouldn't they reference the new RFC 3986 instead?
> 
> I don't think this makes much difference.  And if it does make a
> difference, we shouldn't change it at this late stage.

It does not, since IETF policy is to deprecate an RFC in favor of its
updated version. I didn't mean to suggest to update for the PER either.
The drafts are ready now. But I don't see why it can't be done for the
REC version.

> > Also, the date on the IRI spec in XML Namespaces 1.1 needs to be updated
> > s/October 26, 2003/January 2005/. And the URI for RFC 3987 is
> > http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt.
> 
> Oops.  I've checked in a new version.
> 
> > The date for XML 1.1 will also need an update (maybe at REC time).
> 
> Should it refer explicitly to the second edition?  And should Namespaces
> 1.0 be updated to refer to the fourth edition?

One way to resolve that would be to simply remove the date, so that you
don't have to update each time.

Philippe

Received on Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:26:14 UTC