XBase/XPointer/XLink and an I-D for XML media types

Dear colleagues,

I am writing this mail as a co-author of the I-D for XML based media
types.  We believe that this I-D is almost ready for Last Call.
Encouraged by the XML Core WG, we plan to go for a draft standard of
IETF.  The I-D is currently available at:

      http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-murata-xml-04.txt

Since this I-D has a media type for external parsed entities, another
media type for external DTD subsets and external parameter entities,
and a naming convention for XML-based media types, we feel that we
should try to publish an RFC soon.

However, this I-D references to XBase, XPointer, and XLink.  In
particular, section 5 "Fragment Identifiers" is strongly related with
XPointer and section 6 "The Base URI" is almost dedicated to XBase.
These specs are working drafts rather than W3C recommendations.  We
are not sure if RFCs should reference to working drafts of W3C.

We are wondering if we should omit references to XBase/XPointer/XLink
as well as sections 5 and 6, or we should wait for a while, if XML
Base and XPointer are expected to become W3C recommendations quite
soon.  We would appreciate it very much if the XML Linking WG kindly
gives some advice.


Best regards,

International University of Japan as well as IBM Tokyo Research Institute
MURATA Makoto

Received on Monday, 22 May 2000 12:14:29 UTC