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SPICE GLUE: GLobal Unique Enterprise Identifiers
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Secure Patterns for Internet CrEdentials                       B. Zundel
Internet-Draft                                                  mesur.io
Intended status: Informational                               5 July 2024
Expires: 6 January 2025

            SPICE GLUE: GLobal Unique Enterprise Identifiers
                     draft-zundel-spice-glue-id-00

Abstract

   This specification defines the glue URI scheme and the rules for
   encoding these URIs.  It also establishes the registries necessary
   for management of this scheme.

About This Document

   This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.

   The latest revision of this draft can be found at https://mesur-
   io.github.io/draft-zundel-spice-glue-id/draft-zundel-spice-glue-
   id.html.  Status information for this document may be found at
   https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zundel-spice-glue-id/.

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   Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at
   https://github.com/mesur-io/draft-zundel-spice-glue-id.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Core Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Text Encoding of glue URIs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     4.1.  glue URI Sceme Text Syntax  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   5.  DIDs and glue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   7.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     7.1.  'glue' Scheme URI authority registry  . . . . . . . . . .   4
     7.2.  Guidance for Designated Experts . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   8.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5

1.  Introduction

   Enterprise entity identifiers are myriad.  With the increasing use of
   digitial credentials, there is a need for a common methodology for
   expressing these identifiers such that claims about and by such
   entities can be made in a consistent and interoperable manner.

   This specification defines a URI scheme that standardizes the
   expression of existing company entity identifers and establishes a
   registry for managing how these existing identifiers relate to this
   scheme.

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2.  Conventions and Definitions

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
   BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

   For the remainder of this document, the term "glue URI" is used to
   refer to a URI that uses the glue scheme.

3.  Core Concepts

   Every glue URI, whether expressed as a string or encoded in binary
   MUST be comprised of the following components:

   *  The Authority Identifier

   *  The External Number

   The Authority Identifier indicates the external authority responsible
   for assigning the External Number and the scheme used to do so.

   The External Number is the identifier assigned to the company by the
   external authority.

4.  Text Encoding of glue URIs

   All glue URIs comply with [RFC3986] and are therefore represented by
   a scheme identifier and a scheme-specific part.  The scheme
   identifier is: glue, and the scheme-specific parts are represented as
   a sequence of alphanumeric components separated by the '.' character.
   A formal definition is provided in the next section, but it can
   informally be considered as:

   glue:<authority-identifier>.<external-number>

   The Authority Identifier MUST be an alphanumeric string from the
   "Scheme" field of the glue URI Authority Identifier registry.  The
   External Number MUST be the identifier assigned to the company by the
   external authority under the identified scheme.

4.1.  glue URI Sceme Text Syntax

   TODO ABNF

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5.  DIDs and glue

   TODO DIDs and glue

6.  Security Considerations

   TODO Security

7.  IANA Considerations

   The following sections detail requests to IANA for the creation of a
   new registry.

7.1.  'glue' Scheme URI authority registry

   IANA is requested to create a new registry entitled "'glue' Scheme
   URI Authority Identifiers".  The registration policy for this
   registry is Expert Review as defined in [RFC8126].

   Each entry in this registry associates one or more Authority
   Identifiers with a single organization.  Within the registry, the
   organization is identified using the "Name" field.  Each identified
   organization will be associated with one or more number of company
   identification schemes, which are listed in the "Scheme" field.  A
   reference for each scheme is listed in the "Reference" field of the
   registry.

   The initial values for the registry are:

+==================+========+===========================================+
| Name             | Scheme | Reference                                 |
|                  |        |                                           |
+==================+========+===========================================+
| GS1              |  gln   | https://www.gs1.org/standards/id-keys/gln |
|                  |        |                                           |
+------------------+--------+-------------------------------------------+
| GLEIF            |  lei   | https://www.iso.org/standard/78829.html   |
|                  |        |                                           |
+------------------+--------+-------------------------------------------+
| Dun & Bradstreet |  duns  | https://www.dnb.com/duns.html             |
|                  |        |                                           |
+------------------+--------+-------------------------------------------+

7.2.  Guidance for Designated Experts

   TODO guidance for designated experts

8.  Normative References

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   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119>.

   [RFC3986]  Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
              Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
              RFC 3986, DOI 10.17487/RFC3986, January 2005,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986>.

   [RFC8126]  Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
              Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
              RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8126>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8174>.

Acknowledgments

   TODO acknowledge.

Author's Address

   Brent Zundel
   mesur.io
   Email: brent.zundel@gmail.com

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