[rfc-dist] RFC 5138 on A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI)

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        RFC 5138

        Title:      A Uniform Resource Name (URN) 
                    Namespace for the Commission for the 
                    Management and Application of Geoscience Information 
                    (CGI) 
        Author:     S. Cox
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       February 2008
        Mailbox:    Simon.Cox at csiro.au
        Pages:      8
        Characters: 15005
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-sjdcox-cgi-urn-00.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5138.txt

This document describes a URN (Uniform Resource Name) namespace that
is engineered by the Commission for the Management and Application of
Geoscience Information (CGI) for naming (i) persistent resources
published by the CGI and (ii) resources published by organizations
that wish them to be used in the context of services conforming to
protocols and agreements issued by CGI.  The formal Namespace
Identifier (NID) is "cgi".  This memo provides information for the 
Internet community.


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