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

["Rauschenbach, Uwe (NSN - DE/Munich)" <uwe.rauschenbach at nsn.com>]

Hi all,

SchemaLocation refers to where documents are stored.

Therefore it makes sense to add it to the schema document instances in
the IANA repository, but it is not required to add it to the RFC.

Kind regards,
Uwe 


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simple-bounces at ietf.org 
> [mailto:simple-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of ext Jari Urpalainen
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 11:56 AM
> To: ext Ben Campbell
> Cc: Louise.Clarke at forapolis.com; Simple WG; Dean Willis
> Subject: Re: [Simple] Liaison Statement from the Open Mobile Alliance
> 
> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 22:39 +0200, ext Ben Campbell wrote:
> > 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.
> Right, it is not there, i.e. the rfc is ok. 
> 
> br, Jari  
> 
> 
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