URN Namespace for OMA July 2005 Internet Draft D. Smith Document: draft-smith-oma-urn-00.txt Open Mobile Alliance Expires: January 2006 July 2005 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. Abstract This document describes the Namespace Identifier (NID) for Uniform Resource Namespace (URN) resources published by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). OMA defines and manages resources that utilize this URN name model. Management activities for these and other resource types are provided by the Open Mobile Naming Authority (OMNA). Smith Expires - January 2006 [Page 1]
URN Namespace for OMA July 2005 Table of Contents 1. Introduction...................................................2 2. URN Specification for "oma" NID................................3 2.1 Namespace ID:..............................................3 2.2 Registration Information:..................................3 2.3 Declared registrant of the namespace:......................3 2.4 Declaration of syntactic structure:........................3 2.5 Relevant ancillary documentation:..........................3 2.6 Identifier uniqueness considerations:......................4 2.7 Identifier persistence considerations:.....................4 2.8 Process of identifier assignment:..........................4 2.9 Process for identifier resolution:.........................4 2.10 Rules for Lexical Equivalence:............................4 2.11 Conformance with URN Syntax:..............................4 2.12 Validation mechanism:.....................................4 2.13 Scope:....................................................5 3. Examples.......................................................5 4. Namespace Considerations.......................................5 5. Community Considerations.......................................5 6. Security Considerations........................................6 7. IANA Considerations............................................6 8. References.....................................................6 8.2 Normative References.......................................6 8.3 Informative References.....................................6 Author's Address..................................................6 Intellectual Property Statement...................................7 Full Copyright Statement..........................................7 1. Introduction OMA is a specification development body developing technologies for mobile devices. This activity is supported by a membership comprised of network operators, equipment vendors, content providers and other suppliers to the mobile market. Some of the technologies being developed by OMA need XML namespaces that are managed so that they are unique and persistent. To assure that the uniqueness is absolute, the registration of a specific NID for use by OMA was deemed appropriate. Therefore, a full and complete registration will follow the namespace specification process as defined in [RFC3406]. Smith Expires - January 2006 [Page 2]
URN Namespace for OMA July 2005 2. URN Specification for "oma" NID 2.1 Namespace ID: The NID "oma" is requested. 2.2 Registration Information: registration version number: 1 registration date: 2005-07-18 2.3 Declared registrant of the namespace: Registering organization Name: Open Mobile Alliance Address: 4275 Executive Square Suite 240s La Jolla, CA 92037 Designated contact Role: Technical Program Manager Email: TPM@omaorg.org 2.4 Declaration of syntactic structure: The Namespace Specific String (NSS) of all URNs that use the "oma" NID will have the following structure: urn:oma:{OMAresource}:{ResourceSpecificString} where the "OMAresource" is a US-ASCII string that conforms to the URN syntax requirements [RFC2141] and defines a specific class of resource type. Each resource type has a specific labeling scheme that is covered by "ResourceSpecificString" which also conforms to the naming requirements of [RFC2141]. OMA maintains a naming authority, the Open Mobile Naming Authority (OMNA), that will manage the assignment of "OMAresources" and the specific registration values assigned for each resource class. 2.5 Relevant ancillary documentation: The Open Mobile Naming Authority (OMNA) provides information on the registered resources and the registrations for each. More information about OMNA and the registration activities and procedures to be followed are available at: http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/omna Smith Expires - January 2006 [Page 3]
URN Namespace for OMA July 2005 2.6 Identifier uniqueness considerations: The OMNA will manage resources using the "oma" NID and will be the authority for managing the resources and subsequent strings associated. In the associated procedures, OMNA will ensure the uniqueness of the strings themselves or shall permit secondary responsibility for management of well-defined sub-trees. OMA may permit use of experimental type values that will not be registered. As a consequence, multiple users may end up using the same value for separate uses. As experimental usage is only intended for testing purposes, this should not be a real issue. 2.7 Identifier persistence considerations: OMNA will provide clear documentation of the registered uses of the "oma" NID. This will be structured such that each OMAresource will have a separate description and registration table. The registration tables and information will be published and maintained by OMNA on its web site. 2.8 Process of identifier assignment: OMNA will provide procedures for registration of each type of resource that it maintains. Each such resource may have three types of registration activities: 1) Registered values associated with OMA specs or services 2) Registration of values or sub-trees to other entities 3) Name models for use in experimental purposes 2.9 Process for identifier resolution: The namespace is not listed with an RDS; this is not relevant. 2.10 Rules for Lexical Equivalence: No special considerations, the rules for lexical equivalence of [RFC2141] apply. 2.11 Conformance with URN Syntax: No special considerations. 2.12 Validation mechanism: None specified. URN assignment will be handled by procedures implemented in support of OMNA activities. Smith Expires - January 2006 [Page 4]
URN Namespace for OMA July 2005 2.13 Scope: Global 3. Examples The following examples are representative urns that could be assigned by OMNA. They may not be the actual strings that would be assigned. urn:oma:ac:oma-presence Defines the urn to be used for the Application Characteristic object definition for providing attributes to the Presence enabler defined in OMA. urn:oma:drms:org-foobar Defines the urn associated with the Digital Rights Management System object definition allocated to foobar which is an external organization that made request via OMNA for a drms urn. 4. Namespace Considerations The Open Mobile Alliance is developing a variety of application and service enablers. Some of these enablers depend upon supporting information (e.g. data descriptions, attributes, etc.) to be fully specified. For proper operation, descriptions of the needed supporting information must exist and be available in a unique, reliable and persistent manner. These dependencies provide the basis of need for namespaces, in one form or another. As the Open Mobile Alliance work is ongoing and covers many technical areas, the possibility of binding to various other namespace repositories has been deemed impractical. Each object or description, as defined in OMA, could possibly be related to multiple different other namespaces so further conflicts of association could occur. Thus the intent is to utilize the Open Mobile Naming Authority, operated by OMA, as the naming authority for OMA defined objects and descriptions. 5. Community Considerations The objects and descriptions required for enablers produced by OMA are generally available for use by other organizations. The Open Mobile Naming Authority will provide access and support for name requests by these organizations. This support can be enabled in timely and responsive fashion as new objects and descriptions are produced. These will be enabled in a fashion similar to current OMNA support. Smith Expires - January 2006 [Page 5]
URN Namespace for OMA July 2005 6. Security Considerations There are no additional security considerations other than those normally associated with the use and resolution of URNs in general. 7. IANA Considerations The objective of this registration is for the requested NID to be entered into the IANA registry for URN NIDs. This would result in an update to http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces and any associated mirrors. 8. References 8.2 Normative References As this registration request is an informative document, there are no normative references. 8.3 Informative References [RFC2141] Moats, R., "URN Syntax", RFC 2141, May 1997. [RFC3406] Daigle, L., van Gulik, D., Iannella, R. and P. Faltstrom, "Uniform Resource Names (URN) Namespace Definition Mechanisms", BCP 66, RFC 3406, October 2002. Author's Address Dwight Smith Role: Chair, Operations and Process Committee, OMA Address: Motorola 5555 N Beach Street Ft. Worth, TX 76137 Email: dwight.smith@motorola.com Smith Expires - January 2006 [Page 6]
URN Namespace for OMA July 2005 Intellectual Property Statement The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. Copies of IPR disclosures made to the IETF Secretariat and any assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use of such proprietary rights by implementers or users of this specification can be obtained from the IETF on-line IPR repository at http://www.ietf.org/ipr. The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary rights that may cover technology that may be required to implement this standard. Please address the information to the IETF at ietf-ipr@ietf.org. Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. This document and the information contained herein are provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Smith Expires - January 2006 [Page 7]
