The IESG has received a request from the Uniform Resource Names, Revised WG (urnbis) to consider the following document: - 'Uniform Resource Names (URNs)' <draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc2141bis-urn-20.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-02-27. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract A Uniform Resource Name (URN) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that is assigned under the "urn" URI scheme and a particular URN namespace, with the intent that the URN will be a persistent, location-independent resource identifier. With regard to URN syntax, this document defines the canonical syntax for URNs (in a way that is consistent with URI syntax), specifies methods for determining URN- equivalence, and discusses URI conformance. With regard to URN namespaces, this document specifies a method for defining a URN namespace and associating it with a namespace identifier, and describes procedures for registering namespace identifiers with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). This document obsoletes both RFC 2141 and RFC 3406. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc2141bis-urn/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc2141bis-urn/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
