I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-uri-urn-issues-00.txt

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
directories. This draft is a work item of the Uniform Resource Identifiers 
Working Group of the IETF.                                                 

       Title     : Issues Concerning URN Assignment and Resolution         
       Author(s) : S. Browne, K. Moore
       Filename  : draft-ietf-uri-urn-issues-00.txt
       Pages     : 6
       Date      : 07/07/1995

A number of schemes have been proposed over the past year or so for 
assigning and resolving Uniform Resource Names (URNs) and for associating 
meta-information with URNs.  The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Working 
Group is currently faced with the task of evaluating these schemes.  The 
schemes all claim to satisfy the functional requirements for URNs stated in
RFC 1737.  A number of additional issues that will be helpful to consider 
for purposes of evaluation are listed and discussed in this draft.  
Although this draft is long on questions and short on answers, it attempts 
to distill the issues on which consensus (even if it's agreement to 
disagree) needs to be reached before progress on standardization can be 
made.                                                                      

Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP.  Login with the username
"anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address.  After logging in,
type "cd internet-drafts" and then
     "get draft-ietf-uri-urn-issues-00.txt".
A URL for the Internet-Draft is:
ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-uri-urn-issues-00.txt
 
Internet-Drafts directories are located at:	
	                                                
     o  Africa                                   
        Address:  ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.8)	
	                                                
     o  Europe                                   
        Address:  nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17)	
        Address:  ftp.nis.garr.it (192.12.192.10)
	                                                
     o  Pacific Rim                              
        Address:  munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21)	
	                                                
     o  US East Coast                            
        Address:  ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10)	
	                                                
     o  US West Coast                            
        Address:  ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32)  	
	                                                
Internet-Drafts are also available by mail.	
	                                                
Send a message to:  mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: 
     "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-uri-urn-issues-00.txt".
							
NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in
      MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility.  To use this
      feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE"
      command.  To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or
      a MIME-compliant mail reader.  Different MIME-compliant mail readers
      exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with
      "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split
      up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on
      how to manipulate these messages.
							
For questions, please mail to Internet-Drafts@cnri.reston.va.us.
							

Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader 
implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version
of the Internet-Draft.