Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) B. Leiba
Request for Comments: 6924 Huawei Technologies
Updates: 2648 April 2013
Category: Informational
ISSN: 2070-1721
Registration of Second-Level URN Namespaces under "ietf"
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1. Introduction
"A URN Namespace for IETF Documents" [RFC2648] defines the "ietf" URN namespace and a number of sub-namespaces. "An IETF URN Sub-namespace for Registered Protocol Parameters" [RFC3553] defines an additional sub-namespace, "params", and creates a registry to document allocations under that. But there is no registry that lists, in one place, all sub-namespaces of "ietf". This document creates and populates such a registry, thereby changing the mechanism defined in RFC 2648 for adding new sub-namespaces of "ietf".
2. IANA Considerations
There is currently a top-level registry group called "IETF Protocol Parameter Identifiers", which contains one registry, "IETF URN Sub- namespace for Registered Protocol Parameters". IANA has taken the following three actions:
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IETF URN Sub-namespaces
Sub-namespace | Reference | IANA Registry Reference
--------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------
rfc | [RFC2648] | none
fyi | [RFC2648] | none
std | [RFC2648] | none
bcp | [RFC2648] | none
id | [RFC2648] | none
mtg | [RFC2648] | none
params | [RFC3553] | [http://www.iana.org/assignments/params]
--------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------
3. Security Considerations
This is a procedural document and is entirely unrelated to security.
4. Acknowledgments
Alfred Hoenes noticed the absence of this registry and suggested its creation.5. References 5.1. Normative References[RFC2648] Moats, R., "A URN Namespace for IETF Documents", RFC 2648,
5.2. Informative References
[RFC3553] Mealling, M., Masinter, L., Hardie, T., and G. Klyne, "An
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