Re: [Simple] Liaison Statement from the Open Mobile Alliance

[Ben Campbell <ben at nostrum.com>]

On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:00 AM, Jari Urpalainen wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 20:12 +0200, ext Ben Campbell wrote:
> > (as SIMPLE co-chair)
> >
> > OMA sent a liaison statement to the SIMPLE working group. The
> > statement's overview reads as follows:

[...]

> I looked at the statement, and except the copy-paste bugs of IANA  
> files
> from rfc4826, there's a proposal to add a "schemaLocation" attribute  
> to
> rls-services schema. This attribute value provides a hint from the
> author to a processor regarding the location of a schema document.  
> It is
> an optional value which may help the validation task. Typically  
> however,
> validators have some means to combine multiple schemas (e.g.
> <http://validate.openlaboratory.net/> does also some magic with  
> multiple
> schemas), and as such it has also security implications (if tools e.g.
> try to fetch some external schemas). So imo, in any sane practical
> service, you'll disable these hints. So they _can_ exist in specs, but
> they don't help practical work where you must most likely anyhow tweak
> with these uris. (and fyi, my preference is to use the registered  
> urn's
> which don't much help practical work either)

Am I correct in assuming the schemaLocation attribute is also not in  
the version in the RFC? (I guess that would be a tricky thing to put  
in an RFC due to document lifetime issues.)

Thanks!

Ben.