RE: Comments on TA doc v1.0

[Stefano POGLIANI <stefano.pogliani@sun.com>]

Duane,

	I may be wrong and I wouldn't want to take this discussion as a one versus
the rest of the world.

But your message below confirms, in the way I read it, the idea that UIDs
are actually used to reference elements that are stored in the ebXML
registry. Which is the use outside of this context? Also the open question
seems to refer to this.

So, my reading of the TA makes me thinking that the UID topic is treated
very extensively on respect to its use. But I may be wrong, of course.

Any comment from other people?

/stefano

> -----Original Message-----
> From: duane [mailto:duane@xmlglobal.com]
> Sent: 31 January 2001 23:25
> To: Stefano POGLIANI
> Cc: Brian Eisenberg; Karsten Riemer; hha@mosaic-ag.com; Petit, John;
> ebxml-architecture@lists.ebxml.org
> Subject: Re: Comments on TA doc v1.0
>
>
> The ebXML TA document does not provide "detailed specifications" on
> UID's.  It only gives a high level overview of what the formal
> functionality of UID's is,  how they are used as interfaces between
> ebXML components, and some possible implementation (both normative and
> non normative) of current technology that can accomplish the ebXML
> Requirements document (ie - meet the needs of businesses).
>
> It is in the TA specification because the concept of UID's spans
> multiple ebXML Project Teams and is not owned by RegRep alone.
>
> It is my opinion that the TA has consolidated the UID issues with the
> exception of one critical piece.  Perhaps this is a good time to raise
> the question:
>
> Q: What mechanism do we use to locate a Registry Item from its' UID?
> A: The best suggestion we have had is from Jon Bosak who pointed Brian
> and I at the work done by M. Mealling (URN's and DNS).
>
> Comments
>
> Duane
>