A URN Namespace for GEANT
RFC 4926
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RFC - Informational
(July 2007; No errata)
Was draft-kalin-geant-urn-namespace (individual in app area)
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Network Working Group T. Kalin
Request for Comments: 4926 M. Molina
Category: Informational DANTE
July 2007
A URN Namespace for GEANT
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 IETF Trust (2007).
Abstract
This document describes a proposed URN (Uniform Resource Name)
namespace that would be managed by DANTE, representing European
Research and academic networks, for naming persistent resources
defined by GEANT, the Consortium of European Academic and Research
Networks, its projects, activities, working groups, and other
designated subordinates.
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1. Introduction
The Consortium of European Academic and Research Networks (GEANT)
provides high-speed, high-quality network connectivity for education
institutions, universities, and research centres in Europe. The
network infrastructure is composed of several National Research and
Education Networks (NRENs) and their European-wide interconnection,
GEANT. The current network is GEANT2 [6], and is the seventh
generation of pan-European research and education network, successor
to the pan-European multi-gigabit research network GEANT. DANTE [7]
is a UK-based organization representing the members of the Consortium
and operating the GEANT2 Network. This cooperative work is mainly
done in the framework of EU-funded projects. The biggest of such
activities is currently the GN2 project [6], started in September
2004, that follows other successful ones that have evolved the
European Networks for Research and Education for almost two decades.
It is expected that these activities and the network evolution will
continue to be supported by the European Union and all European
governments in the years to come, as they view the existence of a
state-of-the-art network for research in Europe as being of top
strategic importance. We will refer to the organization involved in
these projects and those that benefit from their outcome as the
"GEANT community".
The GEANT community produces many kinds of documents: specifications,
working drafts, project reports, schemas, stylesheets, etc. The
community wishes to provide global, distributed, persistent,
location-independent names for these resources. The Uniform Resource
Name (URN) variant of URIs meets these requirements.
The GEANT community and other GEANT-affiliated groups would benefit
from the GEANT URN proposal by having an easy, efficient way to
assign globally unique, persistent identifiers to resources that they
create. The nature of GEANT work is that it serves the needs of many
communities of interest. A namespace managed so as to facilitate the
creation, registration, and resolution of unique, persistent
identifiers would be of great value for GEANT, its affiliates, and
the higher education community generally. The possibility of fitting
the naming needs under existing namespaces has been considered, but
the conclusion was that the number of activities and the size of the
developers community is such that creating a lot of (possibly
uncoordinated) dependencies from other namespaces is undesirable.
The proposed URN namespace specification is for a formal namespace.
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2. Specification Template
Namespace ID:
geant
Registration Information:
Registration Version Number 1
Registration Date: 2006-03-21
Registrant of the namespace:
DANTE
ATTN: Maurizio Molina
City House
126 - 130 Hills Road
Cambridge CB2 1PQ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1223 371340
Contact: Tomaz Kalin
Affiliation: DANTE
City House
126 - 130 Hills Road
Cambridge CB2 1PQ
Email: tomaz.kalin@dante.org.uk
Phone: +386 1 430 3055
Syntactic structure:
The Namespace Specific Strings (NSS) of all URNs assigned by
GEANT will conform to the syntax defined in section 2.2 of RFC
2141, "URN Syntax" [2]. In addition, all GEANT URN NSSs will
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