WIMS> RE: [ping] Proposed format for PWG mapping strings in CIM MOFs

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Tue Feb 07 2006 - 16:58:17 EST

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    Hi John,

    Any comments yet?

    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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