- From: Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:17:29 -0500
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Hi everyone, In looking at various tools and documents about 'web services' around the net I've seen a dangerous trend: in many cases people are using URNs without registering the namespaces. The use and syntax is generally correct (with some notable exceptions) but there seems to be some confusion about the registration process. The intent of the 'urn:' scheme is to be a managed namespace so that there is a process and policy which allows systems to assume things about the longgevity of the identifier. The W3C URI Interest Group came out with several recommendations in its report [1], one of which was that Working Groups should be requiring registration of their URI schemes and URN namespaces. I know this may seem to be a minor issue but the URI infrastructure is one of the key components of the web and if its not rigorously protected the interoperability we hope to accomplish will suffer.... The documents to reference are RFC 2141 [2] and RFC 2611 [3] and the current list of registered URN namespaces [4]. (Note: RFC 2611 is being updated but the RFC hasn't been published yet so eventually RFC 2611 will be obsoleted [5]. ) If you have any questions about the process or if you need help filling out the template please don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks! -MM [1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-uri-ig-02.txt [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2141.txt [3] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2611.txt [4] http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces [5] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-urn-rfc2611bis-04.txt -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | urn:pin:1 michael@neonym.net | | http://www.neonym.net
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