Version numbering (was: citing IVOA standards)

[Sean Bechhofer]

On 23 Jun 2008, at 11:39, Norman Gray wrote:

>
> Greetings,
>
> On 2008 Jun 17, at 00:41, Séverin Gaudet wrote:
>
>> "Standards numbering nomenclature" (http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/ 
>> twiki/bin/view/IVOA/TCGStandardsNumberingNomenclature).
>
>
> Thus for a given document, we will have DRAFT-20080101,  
> WD-20080201, PR-20080301 and either REC-1.0 or plain '1.0'.  That  
> scheme is monotonic (so satisfies properties (a) and (b)), and  
> makes the document's status explicit rather than implicit.

Norman

Why not go the whole hog and adopt the same approach for the REC  
documents? I believe this is what W3C has done for Recommendations, e.g.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-ref-20040210/

or

http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/

for an example of a Recommendation that has an update.

Cheers,

	Sean

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