Spencer Dawkins wrote:
I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html).Please wait for direction from your document shepherd or AD before posting a new version of the draft. Document: draft-saintandre-xmpp-urn-02 Reviewer: Spencer Dawkins Review Date: 19 Feb 2007 IESG Telechat date: 22 Feb 2007Summary: This draft is ready for publication as an Informational RFC. I have questions, probably because XMPP is not my area of expertise, but my questions shouldn't affect approval of this specification.Comments:I did not see any discussion of whether the previous jabber.org URNs would be duplicated into this name space or not, although the text justifying creation of this namespace said that the new namespace was needed to ensure continuity for applications, and the document says there are a "large number" of XMPP extensions now. Perhaps the document could say whether the intention is to allow existing applications to migrate to the new namespace or not.
At this time there are no plans for a wholesale migration of older jabber:* and http://jabber.org/* names to urn:xmpp:* names. However, over time we probably will migrate many of the older namespaces.
I was somewhat confused about why xmpp.org names would be more permanent and reliable than jabber.org names, but perhaps everyone knows the answer except me :-)
The new URN namespace names are not particularly associated with the xmpp.org domain, instead they are associated with the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF), which is a non-profit Delaware corporation founded in 2001 to document and define XMPP extensions. As long as the organization exists, the URNs will be issued and maintained.
The XSF owns the xmpp.org domain (well, I do, but I do so as the Executive Director of the XSF), but the XSF does not own the jabber.org domain (which is owned by Jeremie Miller, who invented the core Jabber technologies back in 1998). I foresee no time at which Jeremie will not control the jabber.org domain, but that is possible and in any case that domain is not associated at all with the XSF.
I saw Sam's original DISCUSS (now held by Ted), and suspect that I would be happy with any resolution of that DISCUSS.
Thanks for the review. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre XMPP Standards Foundation http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml
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