Policy for namespace IRIs defined in Web Services Addressing 1.0 drafts

Namespace policy 29 August 2005

This version:
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/5/08/29-ns-policy.html
Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/ns/policy
Editor:
Hugo Haas, W3C

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Abstract

This document defines the policy for updating the namespace IRIs defined in the Web Services Addressing 1.0 drafts.

Status of this Document

This document is an editors' copy that has no official standing.

This is a draft. It needs to be reviewed and approved by the Working Group. The following is a proposed status section.

This document defines the policy for updating namespace IRIs defined in the Web Services Addressing 1.0 specifications. It has been published by the Web Services Addressing Working Group, and MAY be updated at any time. The latest version of the namespace policy is available at http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/ns/policy.

Comment on this document may be sent of the public-ws-addressing@w3.org mailing list (public archive).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Policy
    2.1 Publication of technical reports before Candidate Recommendation
    2.2 Publication of technical reports after Candidate Recommendation

1. Introduction

The Web Services Addressing 1.0 draft (Core, SOAP Binding and WSDL Binding) define XML vocabularies in various namespaces. Those namespaces are usually of the form http://www.w3.org/{YYYY}/{MM}/{ns}, where {YYYY} is the year of publication of a draft, {MM} the month, and {ns} a sequence of characters.

This document defines the policy for changing a namespace IRI from one draft to another.

Drafts governed by this policy SHOULD refer to a dated version of this namespace policy.

2. Policy

This section defines the policy that the Web Services Addressing Working Group intends to use for defining namespace IRIs in the drafts it releases.

This policy applies to the following document on the W3C Recommendation track:

2.1 Publication of technical reports before Candidate Recommendation

Until a document reaches the maturity level of Candidate Recommendation, the namespace IRIs defined in a specification will be updated in each new draft published.

2.2 Publication of technical reports after Candidate Recommendation

After a document has been published as a Candidate Recommendation, the namespace IRIs will be updated only if changes are made to the document are not significant and do not impact the implementation of the specification.

The Working Group will assess, when publishing subsequent versions of the document on the Recommendation track (Proposed Recommendation and W3C Recommendation), the suitability of retaining the namespace IRIs defined in the previous version of the document.