One way to create "private" URNs
worley@ariadne.com (Dale R. Worley) Wed, 19 March 2014 21:39 UTC
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Talking to Peter Saint-Andre on the main URN mailing list, he noted that there's one way to quickly and easily obtain URN space: Obtain an IANA "private enterprise" number: http://pen.iana.org/pen/PenApplication.page https://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers/enterprise-numbers RFC 2578 That allocates to you a branch of the "object identifier" space: 1.3.6.1.4.1.<your number>.xx.yy.zz and derived from object identifiers are OID URNs: urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.<your number>.xx.yy.zz So for example, my consulting company (Ariadne Internet Services, Inc.) is assigned enterprise number 14490, so I can define any OID starting with 1.3.6.1.4.1.14490, and use the corresponding URN. The limitation on OIDs is that they must be a finite sequence of non-negative integers, but other than that, you can define whatever subsets of them you want. Dale
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- One way to create "private" URNs Dale R. Worley