Re: PCLS classes deprecated in PCELS

Ryan Moats <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:30:20 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.policy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:10:33PM -0500, Pana, Mircea wrote:
| So, if I understand correctly, everything would be "OK" if PCELS did:
| 
| 1. Define only subclasses of PCLS classes and, where not possible, redefine
| PCLS concepts as new classes (use different names and oid.s). This is
| already the case in the currently published ID with the exception of
| pcimGroup* that would need to be redefined with a different name.  
| 2. Use "for compliance with PCIMe implementations SHALL use <list schema
| items> instead of <list of schema items> for the realization of <concepts>"
| instead of deprecating PCLS classes. This would be added to a new revision
| of the ID.
| 
| I'm fine with both. (I hope I did not miss anything)
| 
| Wrt. naming PCELS classes and attributes pcime* instead of pcim*, as long as
| there are no naming conflicts, I would prefer to avoid it if possible. Could
| you live with that? However if we have to do it for one item we should do it
| for all.
| 

It might confuse future implementers to reuse "pcim", but I'm unsure if that
is a valid technical reason for avoiding reuse.

Ryan