A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Uniform Resource Names, Revised Working Group of the IETF. Title : Defining Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespaces Author(s) : Alfred Hoenes Filename : draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc3406bis-urn-ns-reg-03.txt Pages : 36 Date : 2012-10-18 Abstract: RFC 2141bis formalizes the concept of Uniform Resource Names (URNs) for persistent, location-independent, resource identifiers within the generic URI system specified in RFC 3986. To structure and organize URN usage, RFC 2141bis specifies a hierarchy that divides the set of possible URNs into "URN Namespaces" that can be individually defined and managed. URN Namespaces allow to map existing identifier systems into the URN scheme and thereby make available generic, network-based resolution services for the identified resources (documents, artifacts, and other objects) and metadata related to them. To this end, URN Namespaces need to be defined and specified in a comparable manner, and their Namespace Identifiers (NIDs) need to be registered with IANA, so that naming conflicts are avoided and implementers of services can follow a structured approach in support of various namespaces, guided by the registry to the related documents and the particularities of specific namespaces, as described in these Namespace registration documents. This RFC serves as a design guideline for stakeholders of URN Namespaces and authors of URN Namespace definition and registration documents. It describes the process to be followed to register a URN Namespace with IANA and the essential content of such documents. This document supersedes and replaces RFC 3406. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc3406bis-urn-ns-reg There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc3406bis-urn-ns-reg-03 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc3406bis-urn-ns-reg-03 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
