Subject: Re: URN scheme for IANA registrations

From: Ron Daniel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:41:20 -0800

Larry Masinter said:

        The general idea is to create a way to refer to these IANA
        registrations using a URI. While it might be as reasonable
        to use http://www.iana.org/<namespace>/<value> as a template
        for such URIs, it might also be more stable to use
           URN:IANA:<namespace>:<value>
        as the URI.

Hmmm, an interesting suggestion. I like it. The BCP document
seems a reasonable way forward.

Regards,

Ron Daniel Jr.
Metacode Technologies, Inc.
139 Townsend Street, Suite 100
San Francisco, CA  94107
415.836.7813 fax 415.222.0150
[email-masked]

> I suppose either mechanism would require a BCP which would instruct
> IANA to maintain the registry in such a fashion to fit into
> the syntactic rules of URLs/URNs (respectively).
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> For the most part, this is imposed by the file name restrictions
> in ftp://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/ but the BCP and
> namespace registration would formalize the conventions.
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> What do you think? Doing this would help resolve a number of
> irritations in the URI-vs-registry debates, since it would
> create a URI for registered values.
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