Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Wold Request for Comments: 8107 Advertising Digital Identification Category: Informational March 2017 ISSN: 2070-1721Advertising Digital Identifier (Ad-ID) URN Namespace Definition
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RFC 8107 Ad-ID URN Namespace Definition March 2017
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
This document defines the formal Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace Identifier (NID) for Ad-IDs.
2. URN Namespace Definition Template
Using the template in [RFC3406], the namespace definition is as follows:
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Declared registrant of the namespace:
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Identifier uniqueness considerations:
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Scope:
3. Namespace Considerations
Ad-IDs are intended for use in Internet applications, where URNs are routinely used to identify audiovisual resources. There is no direct mapping from Ad-IDs to existing URN namespaces.
4. Community Considerations
The primary registrants of Ad-IDs are advertisers and agencies. Ad- IDs can be used by anyone to unambiguously identify advertising assets and retrieve underlying metadata. The primary benefits of its use are providing greater transparency and accountability in the advertising marketplace, helping to eliminate costly errors associated with the inconsistent use of advertising-asset identifiers throughout the advertising supply chain, and enabling a more granular audience measurement across multiple platforms.
5. Security Considerations
This document specifies the syntax of the Ad-ID URN namespace and makes no security representations. However, note that failure to conform to the syntactic and lexical equivalence rules specified in [RFC3406] when using an Ad-ID as a criterion for accessing restricted resources can result in granting unauthorized access.
6. IANA Considerations
This document defines "ad-id" in the "Formal URN Namespaces" registry.
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RFC 8107 Ad-ID URN Namespace Definition March 2017 7. Normative References[RFC2141] Moats, R., "URN Syntax", RFC 2141, DOI 10.17487/RFC2141,
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RFC 8107 Ad-ID URN Namespace Definition March 2017 Appendix A. Additional Background InformationAd-IDs are an eleven-character ASCII string except for High Definition (HD) or Three-Dimensional (3D) codes, which have an H or D as the 12th character.