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PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2141,RFC 3406

Authors:

P. Saint-Andre
J. Klensin

Stream:

IETF

Source:

urnbis (art)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8141

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Abstract

A Uniform Resource Name (URN) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)that is assigned under the "urn" URI scheme and a particular URNnamespace, with the intent that the URN will be a persistent,location-independent resource identifier. With regard to URN syntax,this document defines the canonical syntax for URNs (in a way that isconsistent with URI syntax), specifies methods for determiningURN-equivalence, and discusses URI conformance. With regard to URNnamespaces, this document specifies a method for defining a URNnamespace and associating it with a namespace identifier, and itdescribes procedures for registering namespace identifiers with theInternet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). This document obsoletesboth RFCs 2141 and 3406.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.