Re: [apps-discuss] AppsDir review of draft-saintandre-urn-example

["Murray S. Kucherawy" <[e-mail]>]

I thought it could be useful to show an example namespace that isn't
strings, or that this is done in more than just the domain namespace.  It's
not mandatory; I did say "might".


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>wrote:

> > Would it be
> > appropriate to add a sentence about that? For example, under Community
> > Considerations:
> >
> >   Naturally, authorities for particular namespaces (say, the 'xmpp'
> > NID) might want
> >   to define their own sub-spaces for examples (say,
> > urn:xmpp:example:*); however,
> >   such policies are outside the scope of this document.
>
> I'll stick that in as an RFC Editor note now.
>
> >> In Section 1, you might also make reference to the RFC that
> >> reserves some of the IP address space for examples.  It might be
> >> RFC2606 or some other; apologies for not digging up the reference
> >> myself, but I'm sending this from a place with no net access.
> >
> > Sure, that would be RFC 5737.
>
> Why?  It already says this:
>
>    Therefore this document registers
>    a formal namespace identifier of "example", similar to "example.com"
>    and other domain names [RFC2606].
>
> What's the reason for *also* mentioning 5737?  The point is already
> made, isn't it?
>
> Barry
>