Re: informal URN namespace identifiers

[Ted Hardie <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>wrote:

> The URN namespaces registry contains seven informal identifiers:
>
> http://www.iana.org/**assignments/urn-informal/urn-1<http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-informal/urn-1>
> http://www.iana.org/**assignments/urn-informal/urn-2<http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-informal/urn-2>
> http://www.iana.org/**assignments/urn-informal/urn-3<http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-informal/urn-3>
> http://www.iana.org/**assignments/urn-informal/urn-4<http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-informal/urn-4>
> http://www.iana.org/**assignments/urn-informal/urn-5<http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-informal/urn-5>
> http://www.iana.org/**assignments/urn-informal/urn-6<http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-informal/urn-6>
> http://www.iana.org/**assignments/urn-informal/urn-7<http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-informal/urn-7>
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> As far as I can see, these informal identifiers were mostly intended for
> experimental use. In several cases, the registrations were incomplete, see
> for instance:
>
> "Registration date: TBD"
> "Declared registrant of the namespace:  TBD"
> "Note to RFC editor: replace xxx with the assigned 3 numeric digit
> identifier."
>
> Do we know if these identifiers are in use? Is it worth the effort to clean
> up this part of the registry?
>
>
Looking at the registrations, it seems that there were folks actually
asserting their desire to use them at one time (1 might have been meant as
an example, since Michael was heavily involved in the creation of the
system; I can't tell there).

But I'm not sure what you mean by "clean up" the registry.  These numbers
can't be re-used without breaking a fairly basic assumption of the URN
system.  Leaving the registrations there, even if incomplete, seems better
to me than removing them and leaving unaccounted holes in the registry.

regards,

Ted




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