RPS Structure and Linking Discussion

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File and Folder Rules

• File and folder specifications would aid in converting RPS messages into NeES-like submissions --Joelfinkle 22:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
• This should be left up to the individual regulators, and is out of scope for the RPS message --Joelfinkle 22:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
• I agree that it may not be 'necessary' but I want to be able to use one. I have many purposes for re-use. Agencies have systems that utilise file structires and will not want to have to redevelop their systems and so in Europe I would expect that they will 'want' us to use a folder structure. I thereofre do not want RPS to define that we cannot use a folder structure and if an implementation wants to define a mandatory -or even preferred - structure then it can. --AndrewMarr 11.25, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Hyperlinking

• Eliminating between-document hyperlinking would eliminate any need to specify file and folder structure --Joelfinkle 22:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
• Eliminating between-document hyperlinking would slow down review --Joelfinkle 22:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
• Between-submission-unit hyperlinking currently requires that assembly tools "know" how submission units are stored relative to each other. --Joelfinkle 22:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
• Most proposed solutions to reroute "broken" or "updated" links would require Acrobat plug-ins or server-side redirectors, which is out of scope for the RPS project -- we can create specifications, but not enforce them. --Joelfinkle 22:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
• One alternative would be that the RPS message must include all between-document link information, so that a review system can construct the necessary links. This would remove the need for betweee-document links in the documents themselves, but would still require the review system to have enhancements. --Joelfinkle 22:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)