Re: Use of URNs for PMIs

On 9 August 2016 at 00:30, Adam Roach <abr@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 8/8/16 17:26, Ian Jacobs wrote:
>
>  1. It must be possible for the Working Group to mint a payment method identifier for any payment method.
>     1a) The Working Group uses URNs with a root namespace registered with the IETF.
>     1b) W3C is the only entity that can allocate names within that namespace.
>     1c) Names are allocated by Working Group decision. We don’t expect to allocate many names.
>     1d) We can come up with a variety of ways to publish those names
>
>
> I think that works.
>

+ 1


>
>  2. It must be possible for the anyone to mint a payment method identifier for a payment method under their control.
>     2a) Those parties can use whatever mechanism they want, other than URNs within the W3C namespace.
>
>
> I would personally be happier if we limited it to (a) URLs under the
> control of the entity minting the payment method, and (b) URNs conforming
> to RFC 3406 (leaving it open for other entities to register new URN
> namespaces for this purpose if they so desire). I'm not comfortable with an
> "any string you want" approach.
>

+1


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> Adam Roach
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> Office of the CTO
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