WIMS> FW: Proposed format for PWG mapping strings in CIM MOFs

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Fri Feb 03 2006 - 16:42:17 EST

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    Hi,

    PWG format for CIM MOF references was not processed at today's
    DMTF CIM Core concall, apparently, but John Crandal says below
    that he will "get back by Monday".

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    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

    -----Original Message-----
    From: John Crandall [mailto:jcrandal@Brocade.COM]
    Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:35 PM
    To: McDonald, Ira
    Cc: wims@pwg.org; wg-cimcore@dmtf.org
    Subject: RE: Proposed format for PWG mapping strings in CIM MOFs

    Sorry I did not see this. I will check the spec and get back by Monday.

    John

    -----Original Message-----
    From: McDonald, Ira [mailto:imcdonald@sharplabs.com]
    Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 12:31 PM
    To: John Crandall; McDonald, Ira
    Cc: 'wims@pwg.org'; 'wg-cimcore@dmtf.org'
    Subject: Proposed format for PWG mapping strings in CIM MOFs

    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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