The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Registration of Second-Level URN Namespaces Under "ietf"' (draft-leiba-urnbis-ietf-namespace-02.txt) as Informational RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Pete Resnick. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-leiba-urnbis-ietf-namespace/ Technical Summary RFC 2648 defines the "ietf" URN namespace, and defines a number of sub-namespaces. RFC 3553 defines an additional sub-namespace, "params", and creates a registry to document allocations under that. But there is no registry that lists, in one place, all sub-namespaces of "ietf". This Informational document creates and populates such a registry. This document creates a new IANA registry to hold URN sub-namespaces under the "ietf" namespace. Existing such namespaces include "urn:ietf:rfc:", "urn:ietf:std:", and "urn:ietf:params:". All of the existing namespaces are entered into the new registry by this document, and future registrations are defined as requiring IETF Review. This policy seems appropriate for top-level sub-namespaces controlled by the IETF, and is in the spirit of RFC 2648. This document updates RFCs 2648 and 3553, for two reasons: (1) It registers the sub-namespaces created in those documents and the establishment of the registry needs to be noted by readers of those documents, and (2) RFC 2648 itself implies that if new sub-namespaces are created, RFC 2648 will need to be updated. Working Group Summary This document originates from a note to IANA by Alfred Hönes, in which Alfred noted the absence of the subject registry. IANA asked Barry, as the AD responsible for the urnbis working group, and Barry agreed that such a registry is needed. Because this is outside the urnbis charter, Barry is pursuing this as an individual submission. Document Quality There has so far been no other discussion of this within the community; little discussion is expected, and last call produced a couple of positive reviews with no substantive changes requested. This is a simple document that's addressing a procedural oversight, and no special reviews are necessary. The author confirms that to his personal knowledge, in conformance with BCPs 78 and 79, there is no IPR related to this document. Personnel Barry Leiba is serving as the document shepherd as well as author of this simple document. Pete Resnick is the responsible Area Director. RFC Editor Notes Please make the following changes. In the header: OLD Updates: 2648,3553 NEW Updates: 2648 In both the Abstract *and* in the Introduction (identical text appears in both): OLD This document creates and populates such a registry, and updates RFC 2648 and RFC 3553 to refer readers of those documents to this registry. NEW This document creates and populates such a registry, thereby changing the mechanism defined in RFC 2648 for adding new sub-namespaces of "ietf".
