Re: [abnf-discuss] [urn] Informal NID registration interest

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 30 March 2021 14:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [abnf-discuss] [urn] Informal NID registration interest
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On 2021-03-30, at 15:48, Francesca Palombini <francesca.palombini=40ericsson.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
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>   NSS                = %s"urn:" NID ":" TenantId "@" TenantVersion ":"
>                         IssuerId "@" IssuerVersion ":" Purpose "@"
>                         PurposeVersion "/" ResourceId "@" ResourceKeyVersion

RFC 3986 URI schemes are somewhat reluctantly case-insensitive (see section 3.1 [1]), so the %s is good for generating URNs, but not for checking URNs.

>    NID                = "urn" - DIGIT

Can’t parse — was the “-”  meant to be a literal?

>    TenantId           = 3*(label)

This is pretty weird, so you want at least three loalphas in that ID?

>    label              = loalpha / loalpha *(alphanum / "-") alphanum


I stopped here; further review might be easier with some examples and some rationale.

Grüße, Carsten


[1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.html#section-3.1