A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Sources of Law (LEX)
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INTERNET-DRAFT P. Spinosa
Intended Status: Informational (ICT consultant)
Expires: December 8, 2018 E. Francesconi
ITTIG/CNR
C. Lupo
(ICT consultant)
June 6, 2018
A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace
for Sources of Law (LEX)
draft-spinosa-urn-lex-13.txt
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INTERNET DRAFT URN LEX Namespace for Sources of Law June 2018
Abstract
This document describes a Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace
Identification (NID) convention as prescribed by the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) for identifying, naming, assigning, and
managing persistent resources in the legal domain.
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INTERNET DRAFT URN LEX Namespace for Sources of Law June 2018
Table of Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1 The Purpose of Namespace "lex" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2 Entities Supporting this Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 The Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4 General Characteristics of the System . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.5 Linking a LEX Name to a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.6 Use of LEX Names in References . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.7 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.8 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.9 Syntax Used in this Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2 Registration Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3 Specifications of Registration Template . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.1 Identifier structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2 Conformance with URN Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.3 Validation Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.4 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4 General Syntax and Features of the LEX Identifier . . . . . . 16
4.1 Allowed and Not Allowed Characters . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.2 Reserved Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.3 Case Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.4 National Characters and Diacritic Signs . . . . . . . . . 17
4.5 Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.6 Date Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5 Specific Syntax and Features of the LEX Identifier . . . . . . 18
5.1 Spaces, Connectives and Punctuation Marks . . . . . . . . 19
5.2 Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.3 Ordinal Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6 Creation of the Source of Law LEX Identifier . . . . . . . . . 19
6.1 Basic Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.2 Model of Sources of Law Representation . . . . . . . . . 20
6.3 The Structure of the Local Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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