The Profile URI Registry
RFC 7284
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(June 2014; No errata)
Was draft-lanthaler-profile-registry (individual)
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Author | Markus Lanthaler | ||
Last updated | 2014-06-24 | ||
Stream | ISE | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
IETF conflict review | conflict-review-lanthaler-profile-registry | ||
Stream | ISE state | Published RFC | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7284 (Informational) | |
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Responsible AD | (None) | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack |
Independent Submission M. Lanthaler Request for Comments: 7284 Category: Informational June 2014 ISSN: 2070-1721 The Profile URI Registry Abstract This document defines a registry for profile URIs to be used in specifications standardizing profiles. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independently of any other RFC stream. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at its discretion and makes no statement about its value for implementation or deployment. Documents approved for publication by the RFC Editor are not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7284. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2014 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Lanthaler Informational [Page 1] RFC 7284 The Profile URI Registry June 2014 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................2 2. Registration Process ............................................2 3. Example Registration Request ....................................2 4. IANA Considerations .............................................3 4.1. Initial Registry Contents ..................................4 5. Security Considerations .........................................4 6. Acknowledgements ................................................4 7. Normative References ............................................5 1. Introduction Profiles, as defined by [RFC6906], can be used to signal support for additional semantics, such as constraints, conventions, extensions, or any other aspects that do not alter the basic media type semantics. Profiles are identified by a URI and can thus be created without central coordination. Similar to media types and link relation types, it is, in some cases, beneficial to centrally manage profile URIs to ensure interoperability and decrease the coupling between clients and servers. This allows the independent evolution of clients and servers as both are coupled to these central contracts instead of being coupled to each other. Therefore, this document establishes an IANA registry for profile URIs. 2. Registration Process All elements in this registry require a URI in order to be registered. The meaning of the profile URI should be documented in a permanent and readily available public specification in sufficient detail so that interoperability between independent implementations is possible (see the registration template in Section 4). An example registration request can be found in Section 3. 3. Example Registration Request The following is an example registration request for the profile URI http://example.com/profiles/example. This is a request to IANA to please register the profile URI "http://example.com/profiles/example" in the "Profile URIs" registry according [RFC7284]. Lanthaler Informational [Page 2] RFC 7284 The Profile URI Registry June 2014 o Profile URI: http://example.com/profiles/example o Common Name: My Profile o Description: An exemplary profile URI registration. o Reference: [the relevant specification] 4. IANA Considerations This document establishes the "Profile URIs" registry. The registration procedure for new entries requires a request in the form of the following template and is "First Come First Served" per [RFC5226]. Instructions for a registrant to request the registration of a profile URI are in Section 2. The underlying registry data (e.g., the XML file) must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions [TRUST]. The registration template is: o Profile URI: The URI that identifies the registered profile. o Common Name: The name by which the profile being registered is generally known. o Description: A relatively short description of the profile. For simple profiles, this might be all the documentation that is required and there might be no reference document. In thoseShow full document text