Re: IANA URN registration enquiry - Rules for Lexical Equivalence of NSS part

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

On 4/19/11 3:25 AM, DTG Registration wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When declaring rules for lexical equivalence of NSS part, is this
> section valid if only the URN NID is being registered with IANA?

I assume you're referring to Appendix A of RFC 3406. Because the entire
text of that document is about the registration of a namespace
identifier with IANA (or, to be precise, "the processes by which a
collection of identifiers satisfying certain constraints can become a
bona fide URN namespace by obtaining a NID"), it's not clear to me what
you mean by your question "is this section valid if only the URN NID is
being registered with IANA?" Only the NID is ever registered with IANA
because specific URNs under that NID are issued by the administrative
entity that registers the NID in the first place. However, part of the
process of registering a NID is specifying the rules for lexical
equivalence. As with the other requirements of RFC 3406, defining the
rules for lexical equivalence will help the administrative entity to
clarify its processes and procedures regarding URN issuance, and also
will help developers of software for handling the issued URNs to
implement consistent parsing algorithms.

Did I misunderstand your question?

Peter

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