Re: informal URN namespace identifiers
Michael Mealling <michael@refactored-networks.com> Tue, 19 July 2011 21:41 UTC
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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:41:29 -0500
From: Michael Mealling <michael@refactored-networks.com>
To: Leslie Daigle <leslie@thinkingcat.com>
Subject: Re: informal URN namespace identifiers
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+1 as well... If none are being requested I can't see it hurts that much to leave the file there... -MM P.S. Hi everyone! Yea, I'm still alive. Finishing up an MBA in December. Putting together a new space startup if all goes well... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leslie Daigle" <leslie@thinkingcat.com> To: "Ted Hardie" <ted.ietf@gmail.com> Cc: urn-nid@ietf.org, "Michelle Cotton" <michelle.cotton@icann.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 5:34:56 PM Subject: Re: informal URN namespace identifiers +1 Leslie. On 7/19/11 5:31 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im > <mailto:stpeter@stpeter.im>> 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> > > 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 > > > Peter > > -- > Peter Saint-Andre > https://stpeter.im/ > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Reality: Yours to discover." -- ThinkingCat Leslie Daigle leslie@thinkingcat.com -------------------------------------------------------------------
- Re: informal URN namespace identifiers Benja Fallenstein
- informal URN namespace identifiers Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: informal URN namespace identifiers Ted Hardie
- Re: informal URN namespace identifiers Leslie Daigle
- Re: informal URN namespace identifiers Michael Mealling
- Re: informal URN namespace identifiers Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: informal URN namespace identifiers Peter Saint-Andre