Use of xNAL Preliminary Thoughts Howard Abrams – CA, Inc.

Proposal Use OASIS xNAL, and Deprecate – sdd-common:Name – sdd-common:Location – sdd-common:Address – sdd-common:Country – And possibly sdd-common:ContactInformation

Why xNAL It’s an Oasis standard, why make up our own Google uses it in their product(s) Less to support in our Schema

Before This is a… Simple Application Client 1.0 IBM Corporation 1133 Westchester Avenue … U.S.A.

After This is a… Simple Application Client 1.0 IBM Corporation 1133 Westchester Avenue White Plains, New York U.S.A.

Open Issues xNAL has 100 different ways of specifying the same name or address. Might be confusing to implementers or package description writers.