[OASIS Specification Title]

[Namespace Title]

[date]

Introduction

This document describes version [x.xx] of the [namespace title and hypertext link to namespace URI] namespace. It also contains a directory of links to related resources using the Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL) 2.0.

Namespace URI Versioning Policy

It is the intent of the OASIS [tc short name] Technical Committee that the [namespace title] namespace URI will not change arbitrarily with each subsequent revision of the corresponding WSDL or XML Schema documents but rather change only when a subsequent revision, published in conjunction with a Committee Draft, results in non-backwardly compatible changes from a previously published Committee Draft.

Under this policy, the following are examples of backwards compatible changes that would not result in assignment of a new namespace URI:

addition of new global element, attribute, complexType and simpleType definitions
addition of new operations within a WSDL portType or binding (along with the corresponding schema, message and part definitions)
addition of new elements or attributes in locations covered by a previously specified wildcard
modifications to the pattern facet of a type definition for which the value-space of the previous definition remains valid or for which the value-space of the preponderance of instance would remain valid
modifications to the cardinality of elements for which the value-space of possible instance documents conformant to the previous revision of the schema would still be valid with regards to the revised cardinality rule

Related Resources for [namespace title]

Normative Reference:

Resource Title [include hyperlink with RDDL metadata]

Title:

[specification title Version x.x]

Stage:

[Committee Draft xx, Committee Specification xx, OASIS Standard]

Date:

[date of approval in the form DD Month YYYY]

This version:

[link to this version of the specification] (include hyperlink)

Previous version:

[link to previous version of the specification] (include hyperlink)

Technical Committee

[name of Technical Committee and link to TC Public page]

Chair(s):

[name of TC Chair(s)]

Editors:

[name of TC Editor(s)]

Additional Formats:

Editable Source (hyperlink)

PDF (hyperlink)

Comments list:

Submit comments (link to 'send comments' page)

Comments Archive:

[link to archive page]

XML Schema(s):

Resource Title [include hyperlink with RDDL metadata]

Related Namespaces (include RDDL metadata)