Subject: Re: [Simple] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-simple-presence-rules-06.txt

From: Jonathan Rosenberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:49:17 -0400

OK, this is a good suggestion. I'll make the change.

Thanks,
Jonathan R.

Jeroen van Bemmel wrote:

> Jonathan,
> 
> The way in which namespaces are bound to 'provide-unknown-attribute' 
> could be problematic when multiple XML documents are combined. XML tools 
> will not be aware of the binding, and could e.g. rename conflicting 
> namespace prefixes which would cause the rule to become invalid.
> 
> Suggestion:
> <pr:provide-unknown-attribute ns="urn:vendor-specific:foo-namespace"
>    name="foo">true</pr:provide-unknown-attribute>
> this keeps the namespace binding more local to the rule, and works when 
> multiple rule documents are merged. Also, it avoids confusion, since the 
> namespace prefix used in target documents (to which the rules are 
> applied) might well be different from "new".
> 
> Regards,
> 
> jeroen
> 
> PS Minor nit: for the example in 5 could consider to use 
> 'urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:common-policy' as default namespace
> 
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>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
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>> This draft is a work item of the SIP for Instant Messaging and 
>> Presence Leveraging Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
>>
>> Title : Presence Authorization Rules
>> Author(s) : J. Rosenberg
>> Filename : draft-ietf-simple-presence-rules-06.txt
>> Pages : 28
>> Date : 2006-5-16
>>
>> Authorization is a key function in presence systems.  Authorization
>>   policies, also known as authorization rules, specify what presence
>>   information can be given to which watchers, and when.  This
>>   specification defines an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document
>>   format for expressing presence authorization rules.  Such a document
>>   can be manipulated by clients using the XML Configuration Access
>>   Protocol (XCAP), although other techniques are permitted.
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