WIMS> Proposed format for PWG mapping strings in CIM MOFs

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Mon Jan 23 2006 - 15:30:52 EST

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    Hi John,

    Some background. The PWG is a member organization of
    the IEEE-ISTO. The PWG standards-track has only two
    levels, Candidate Standard and Standard. All current
    PWG standards-track documents are at the first level.
    Each PWG standards-track document is assigned a
    permanent document number when it reaches Candidate
    Standard level, of the form "PWG 51xy.z", e.g., PWG
    5105.1 is the PWG Semantic Model. Note that _dot_
    infixed in the document number.

    I suggest the following ABNF for PWG mapping strings
    (using productions from RFC 4234 'ABNF'):

    pwg-ms = DQUOTE pwg-num "." "PWG" "|" pwg-text DQUOTE
    pwg-num = "PWG" "51" 2digit "-" 1*digit
    pwg-text = *(SP / VCHAR)

    For example, using this format:

      MappingStrings { "PWG5101-1.PWG|Section 4 Media Color Names" }

    The pesky infixed dot has been converted to a hyphen.

    Comments?

    Cheers,
    - Ira (editor of PWG CIM refresh white paper)

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

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