[urn] Re: URN Namespace Registration for International Standard Name Identifier

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

In addition to Dale's feedback, which seems sensible to me, I would 
suggest the following changes:

- for the registrant, include a role address at isni.org, not Paul's 
personal email address; this can help with future communications

- because the RFC 8141 registation template does not have a "Background" 
or a "Benefits" section, move that information to the appropriate 
sections in the template (mainly "Purpose")

- move the "Character set" information to the "Syntax" section (again, 
there is no "Character set" section in the template)

- remove the sentence about current minor revisions to ISO 27729 since 
that information is rather ephemeral

Peter

On 9/11/24 10:08 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> There seems every reason to approve this registration.  However, I
> suggest these small changes:
> 
> - There are occurrences of the character "?" in the document that seem
> to replace non-ASCII characters in an original version.  These should
> either be replaced with appropriate ASCII characters, or the document
> revised to use UTF-8 encodings of the original characters.
> 
> - Add a note for implementors that the resolution process may include
> one or more HTTP redirections.  Implementors should be prepared for this
> anyway, but it's useful to warn them.
> 
> - I notice that the current registration template in RFC 8141 doesn't
> have an explicit "uniqueness and persistence" section, but I recommend
> adding a section on uniqueness to assemble these points, as there are
> certain subtleties involved:
> 
>      [as already in Background] ISNI does not identify the underlying
>      natural or legal person and several ISNIs may be associated with
>      such a person if it presents multiple identities (such as personas)
>      to the public.
> 
>      [as already in Assignment] Where two ISNIs are later discovered to
>      refer to the same identity, these registrations are merged, the
>      unused ISNI is retained but marked as deprecated and it is linked to
>      the other ISNI.
> 
>      [It seems to me that what constitutes an "identity" is a *cultural*
>      question, and specifically not a technical one.  Perhaps ISNI-IA or
>      the ISO standard has nice boilerplate to state this.]
> 
> Dale
> 
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