Last, a long-time discussion: Roman spotted another issue:
The idRef="urn:ogf:network:nordu.net:2011:NORDUnet:org" does not appear to point at anything.
Freek replied:
Good catch. Frankly, the difference between id and idRef is never properly defined.
Roman clarified:
The idea of id and idRef was taken from NM/NMC and it's very useful to make distinction between definitions and references to those definitions.
I am aware of the origin, but will repeat my original rather firm statement: I've never seen a proper definition of the difference between the two. I've seen vague statements about origin, but I do not think that NML should use id/idRef to make statements about origin, if only for the reason that RDF does not contain id nor idRef. We did try to come up with a proper solution in https://forge.ogf.org/sf/go/artf6555 But that discussion was stranded by some terminology discussion in the related https://forge.ogf.org/sf/go/artf6553 (warning: long read) We did not get a consensus on the terminology, let alone find a solution how to encode it in either XML or RDF. I encourage you to come up with a good explanation what you want to distinguish between, and how you want to make that distinction -- both in XML and in RDF. I am looking forward to that proposal, but by lack thereof, I claim that we're better of without the id/idRef distinction, since it will only lead to confusion. Freek