Temporal URI scheme

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

This document defines the URI scheme "dt", which describes resources identified by date-time.¶

2. The "temporal" URI Scheme

The "temporal" URI scheme allows for the construction of a URI which represents a discrete point in time.¶

temporal-URI    = temporal-scheme ":" dt
temporal-scheme = "dt"
dt              = date-time

See [RFC3339], Section 5.6.3 for a definition of date-time.¶

For example, given the URI:¶

dt:20221222T162813Z

Would represent a discrete point in time of "2022-12-22T16:28:13Z".¶

The following examples would also be valid URIs:¶

dt:2022-12-22T16:28:13Z
dt:1985-04-12T23:20:50.52Z

This RFC intentionally provides no definition of how URI's might be parsed or compared by applications using them. For example, it is possible to define two URI's which refer to the exact same point in time and it is left to consuming application (or some future specification) to define what that might 'mean'.¶

3. IANA Considerations

This document registers the following value in the "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Schemes" registry:¶

Scheme name:

dt¶

Status:

provisional¶

Applications/protocols that use this scheme:

none yet¶

Contact:

iesg@iesg.org¶

Change Controller:

IESG¶

References:

(this document)¶

4. Security Considerations

TBA¶

Acknowledgements

The definition of date-time is from [RFC3339].¶

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