A URN Namespace for GEANT
RFC 4926
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(July 2007; No errata)
Was draft-kalin-geant-urn-namespace (individual in app area)
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Authors | Tomaz Kalin , Maurizio Molina | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
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IESG | IESG state | RFC 4926 (Informational) | |
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Responsible AD | Ted Hardie | ||
Send notices to | rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org |
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. Kalin & Molina Informational [Page 1] RFC 4926 A URN Namespace for GEANT July 2007 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. Kalin & Molina Informational [Page 2] RFC 4926 A URN Namespace for GEANT July 2007 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 consist of a left-to-right series of tokens delimited by colons. The left-to-right sequence of colon-delimited tokens corresponds to descending nodes in a tree. To the right of theShow full document text