Uniform Resource Names (URNs)

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 40
Abstract: A Uniform Resource Name (URN) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that is assigned under the "urn" URI scheme and a particular URN namespace, 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 is consistent with URI syntax), specifies methods for determining URN-equivalence, and discusses URI conformance. With regard to URN namespaces, this document specifies a method for defining a URN namespace and associating it with a namespace identifier, and it describes procedures for registering namespace identifiers with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). This document obsoletes both RFCs 2141 and 3406.
Publication Date: 2017-04-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8141
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8141
Author(s): Peter Saint-Andre
Dr. John C. Klensin
Keyword(s): URN, Uniform Resource Identifier, URI

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IETF RFC 20 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3986 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 5226 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 5234 [Active, Amended*]

Bibliographic Reference(s)

IANA.URI — CoAP-TCP-TLS-registration EXTERNAL
IETF.draft-paskin-doi-uri-04 — DOI-URI EXTERNAL
IETF.draft-saintandre-iana-urn-01 — IANA-URN EXTERNAL
ISO 3166-1:2013 [Active]
ISO.27729.2012 — ISO.27729.2012 EXTERNAL
The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard", < http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/ >. EXTERNAL
The Unicode Consortium, "Unicode Standard Annex #31: Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax", Unicode 9.0.0, June 2015, < http://unicode.org/reports/tr31/ >. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 1737 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1738 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 1808 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2141 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2276 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2483 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2648 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3044 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3187 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3188 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3406 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3552 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4854 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5122 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5890 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6120 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6288 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6648 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6838 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6943 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6963 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6973 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7254 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7282 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7320 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 7462 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7613 [Superseded*]
W3C XML Namespaces 1.0 [Active]
W3C.xmlbase.20090128 — XMLBase EXTERNAL

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