A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Federated Content
draft-dtessman-urn-namespace-federated-content-03

No Objection

(Bill Fenner)
(Brian Carpenter)
(David Kessens)
(Mark Townsley)
(Russ Housley)
(Scott Hollenbeck)

No Record

(Ted Hardie)

Note: This ballot was opened for revision 03 and is now closed.

Bill Fenner Former IESG member
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                            Brian Carpenter Former IESG member
                        

                        

                            
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Spencer Dawkins said:

A quick look-through made me wonder about one detail - the whole point is to come up with a (domain name as of some date) convention to uniquely identify a content provider for all time - but the date only requires a four-digit year (CCYY), with month (MM) and day-of-month (DD) optional.

I'm sure this will work fine in practice, but my particular industry is off to the land of mergers and acquisitions again, so I would be more comfortable with requiring at least the month to be part of the date as well. The race condition is "name some resource on January 2, acquire some corporation on January 3, and start reusing domain name components for other purposes in October".

                            

                        
                    

                
            
                
                    

                        

                            David Kessens Former IESG member
                        

                        

                            
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                            Mark Townsley Former IESG member
                        

                        

                            
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                            Russ Housley Former IESG member
                        

                        

                            
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                            Scott Hollenbeck Former IESG member
                        

                        

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                                    (2005-04-20)
                                
                                
                                    
                                    
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Please cite RFC 2119 in section 2.

References should be split normative/informative.

                            

                        
                    

                
            
        
            
                
                    

                        

                            Ted Hardie Former IESG member
                        

                        

                            (was Discuss, Yes)
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                                    (2005-04-24)
                                
                                
                                    
                                    
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If I read Bill's message correctly, the question is, should domain names embedded
within example URNs be required to use example.com, example.net, and friends?

I don't think so.  I think the reason we require it in the general run of documents is
to avoid folks reading the documents from coding the examples into the protocol
and to avoid references to domain names which may change owner, content, and
so on in ways which would surprise someone dereferencing the URIs.  Given the
delegation model of the URN, I don't think that's an issue here.