XML in IETF protocols

This directory contains notes for a proposed Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF) directorate activity to clarify aspects of the role of XML in IETF protocols

Notes

• Notes for brief presentation at Applications area open meeting at 55th IETF (HTML)
• Survey of selected XML related specifications (N3, HTML)
• Visualization of protocol relationships (PNG,GIF)
• Survey of XML-related protocol issues (MMP, HTML)
• XML saves the world <?> (MMP, HTML)
• Early proposed charter for XML directorate activity (now somewhat dated)
• See directory listing for:
  • N3 rules files
  • XSL transformation stylesheets
  • Batch files to generate visualization from N3

XML protocols at 55th IETF

• Notes for brief presentation at Applications area open meeting at 55th IETF (HTML)
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Links to other related information

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) web site: http://www.ietf.org/.
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) web site: http://www.w3.org/.
  • W3C recommendations and technical reports: http://www.w3.org/TR/.
• BEEP core framework - RFC 3080
• P. Shafer, R. Enns, JUNOScript: An XML-based Network Management API. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-shafer-js-xml-api-00.txt.
• S. Hollenbeck, M. Rose, L. Masinter, RFC 3470: Guidelines for the Use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) within IETF Protocols, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3470.txt.
• Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME), Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Henry Sanders, Russell Butek, Simon Nash, 17 June 2002,   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nielsen-dime-02.txt.
  • See also: Cover Pages, Technology Reports, Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME), http://xml.coverpages.org/dime.html.
• SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Hervé Ruellan, W3C Working Draft 24 September 2002, http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-af.
  • See also: SOAP Messages with Attachments, John J. Barton, Satish Thatte, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, W3C Note 11 December 2000,   http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments.
• Namespaces in XML, http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/.
• M. Mealling, The IETF XML Registry, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-iana-xmlns-registry-04.txt.
• M. Mealling, et al, An IETF URN Sub-namespace for Registered Protocol Parameters, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-iana-urn-03.txt.

Associated tools

• Circles and arrows diagrams using stylesheet rules. Dan Connolly's page on generating node and arc diagrams from RDF: http://www.w3.org/2001/02pd/.
• cwm. Tim Berners-Lee's N3 and RDF rule processing engine: http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/cwm.html.
• Saxon. XSLT processor: http://saxon.sourceforge.net/. (Note for Windows users: follow the Instant Saxon link for a ready-to-run executable.)
• graphviz. Graph visualization software: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/.