RE: resolution to URI equivalence rules issue (XMLP issue 388)

Mark,
This sounds good to me. Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Jones [mailto:jones@research.att.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 11:19 AM
> To: Kirill Gavrylyuk
> Cc: xmlp-comments@w3.org; jones@research.att.com
> Subject: resolution to URI equivalence rules issue (XMLP issue 388)
> 
> Kirill Gavrylyuk:
> 
> You raised the following last call issue against the XML Protocol
> Attachment Feature document:
> 
>   "4. Section 6: We suggest to explicitly reference the equivalence
rules
>   used for the URIs when the message parts are identified. (We believe
>   editors meant the URI equivalence rules specified in the URI spec
[3]).
>   The fact that XML namespace spec uses different equivalence rules
for
>   namespace URIs then the original URI spec causes a confusion among
>   developers on which rules to use in each case of the URIs use."
> 
> Section 6 of SOAP 1.2 Part 1 discusses uses of URIs in SOAP including
> determination of a base URI for relative URIs and URI equivalence
> rules.  We propose to resolve your issue by adding a reference to this
> section to the AF document (without duplicating text between Part 1
and
> the
> AF specification).  The revised text reads:
> 
>   *  A mechanism by which each part is identified using one (or more)
>   URI(s), see (ref to SOAP Part 1, 6. Use of URIs in SOAP). The URI
>   scheme used MAY but need not be the same for all parts. The URI
scheme
>   used for multiple identifiers of a single part MAY but need not be
the
>   same.
>        Note: the ability to identify a single part with multiple URIs
is
>   provided because, in general, the Web architecture allows such
multiple
>   names for a single resource. It is anticipated that most bindings
will
>   name each part with a single URI, and through the use of base URIs,
>   provide for absolute and/or relative URI references to that URI.
> 
> 
> 
> We trust this satisfies the issue that was raised.  Please let us know
> as soon as possible if it does not.
> 
> Mark A. Jones
> XML Protocol WG Member
> 
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