Re: [urn] Finalizing items from IETF 83

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

On 6/28/12 4:01 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2012-06-28 11:42, Svensson, Lars wrote:
>> Juha wrote:
>>
>>> But
>>> I hope that RFC2141bis will say at least that fragments are not part of
>>> the NSS but they can be used in those namespaces which specifically
>>> allow that.
>>
>> I'll second that RFC 2141bis says that fragment identifiers are
>> allowed in URNs but that they are not part of the NSS. Further, RFCs
>> for new namespaces must specify if they allow the use of fragment
>> identifiers or not but I guess that is something for RFC 3406bis.
> 
> No.
> 
> Namespace specifications define the namespace-specific part; nothing
> else. Fragment syntax and semantics are defined by RFC 3986.
> 
> A spec *can* point out that the URN does not identify something from
> which a payload + media type can be retrieved, in which fragment
> identifiers are not applicable. But that's different from disallowing them.

Julian, by "spec" here do you mean a specification for a particular
namespace identifier? (And would one result be that each NID spec would
need to specify whether URNs issued within that NID identify entities
from which a payload + media type can be retrieved?)

Peter

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