A URN Namespace for OASIS
RFC 3121
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RFC - Informational
(June 2001; No errata)
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Network Working Group K. Best
Request for Comments: 3121 OASIS, Inc.
Category: Informational N. Walsh
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
June 2001
A URN Namespace for OASIS
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document describes a URN (Uniform Resource Name) namespace that
is engineered by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards (OASIS) for naming persistent resources
published by OASIS (such as OASIS Standards, XML (Extensible Markup
Language) Document Type Definitions, XML Schemas, Namespaces,
Stylesheets, and other documents).
1. Introduction
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards (OASIS) produces many kinds of documents: specifications,
working drafts, technical resolutions, schemas, stylesheets, etc.
OASIS wishes to provide global, distributed, persistent, location-
independent names for these resources.
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) requires that all resources
provide a system identifier, which must be a URI, in addition to an
optional public identifier (which provides an alternate mechanism for
constructing identifiers) and many evolving specifications require
authors to identify documents by URI alone (XML Namespaces, XML
Schema, XSLT, etc.).
Motivated by these observations, OASIS would like to assign URNs to
some resources in order to retain unique, permanent location-
independent names for them.
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This namespace specification is for a formal namespace.
2. Specification Template
Namespace ID:
"oasis" requested.
Registration Information:
Registration Version Number: 3
Registration Date: 2001-02-05
Declared registrant of the namespace:
Karl Best
OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards
Post Office Box 455
Billerica, MA USA 01821
Phone: +1 (978) 667 5115
Declaration of structure:
The Namespace Specific String (NSS) of all URNs assigned by OASIS
will have the following hierarchical structure:
There are two branches at the top of the hierarchy: "names" and
"member".
The Names Hierarchy
The NSS in the names hierarchy begins with a document class
identifier. There are three classes of identifiers:
"specification", "tc", and "technical".
Specifications
The "specification" hierarchy is for OASIS Specifications. The
general structure of the NSS in the specification hierarchy has
the form:
urn:oasis:names:specification:{specification-id}
:{type}{:subtype}?:{document-id}
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where "specification-id" is a unique identifier for the
specification, "type" identifies the document type (document,
schema, stylesheet, entity, xmlns, etc.), the optional
"subtype" provides additional information about the document
type (for example, stylesheet or schema language), and
"document-id" is a unique identifier for the document.
The Director of Technical Operations at OASIS assigns document
types, subtypes, and all unique identifiers.
Technical Committee Work Products
The "tc" hierarchy is for work products of OASIS Technical
Committees. The general structure of the NSS in the tc
hierarchy has the form:
urn:oasis:names:tc:{tc-id}:{type}{:subtype}?:{document-id}
where "tc-id" is a unique identifier for the Technical
Committee, and the remaining fields are assigned as per the
specification hierarchy.
Technical Papers
The "technical" hierarchy identifies legacy documents
(Technical Notes, Resolutions, Memoranda, and Research Papers).
The general structure of the NSS in the "technical" hierarchies
has the form:
urn:oasis:names:technical:{document-type}
:{document-id}:{amendment-id}
The document type is one of the following: "note",
"resolution", "memorandum", or "researchpaper".
The document and amendment identifiers are derived from the
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