[urn] OT: urn:iana (was:Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc3406bis-urn-ns-reg-01.txt)

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

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This is off-topic. My apologies for the tangent...

On 1/10/12 7:15 AM, Jonathan A Rees wrote:

> I think persistence and resolvability can and should be decoupled, and
> treated as separate responsibilities.
> 
> Persistence is relative and to some extent subjective. I would say
> that the RFC series is a pretty good bet for persistence, as are the
> non-DNS registries such as media type, link relation, message header,
> etc. So that is where I would set the bar - are the bindings of the
> URIs in question (whether URN or HTTP) as persistent as the binding of
> (say) media type name to media type?

I wonder whether it would be useful to define a URN namespace for IANA,
so that applications could persistently name individual entries in IANA
registries. As examples:

urn:iana:managesieve:capabilities:SASL

urn:iana:media-types:application:atom+xml

urn:iana:sdp-security-descriptions:crypto-suites:SEED_128_GCM_96

Last summer I wrote an Internet-Draft on this topic, but I never
submitted it. If you think this might have value, please ping me off-list.

Peter

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