Review updated 2018-06-03 to cover -01.
(1) This document is of type Informational, which is
the same type as RFC 3188 and is appropriate for
this specification.
(2)
Technical Summary
This specification updates the URN namespace
registration for National Bibliography Numbers
(NBNs), which are used intensively by a number of
European national libraries. The primary change
from RFC 3188 is the addition of support for URN
q-components and f-components as specified in
RFC 8141 (the updated definition of URNs).
Working Group Summary
This specification was slated to be completed by
the URNBIS Working Group but was decoupled from WG
deliverables because of changes made to the URN
namespace registration process between RFC 3406
and RFC 8141 (i.e., IETF consensus is no longer
required for registration of formal namespaces, only
Expert Review). However, publication of this document
as an RFC will ensure that the updated definition of
NBN URNs is available in a stable specification that
obsoletes RFC 3188.
Document Quality
As noted, a number of national libraries in Europe have
implemented systems that support the NBN namespace
and have generated millions of URNs in the namespace.
This specification accurately documents the syntax and
management of the NBN namespace.
Personnel
The Document Shepherd is Peter Saint-Andre (co-author
of RFC 8141). The Responsible Area Director is Alexey
Melnikov.
(3) The Document Shepherd has reviewed the specification
at several stages in its lifecycle as a WG and non-WG
document, and deems the document ready for publication.
(4) The Document Shepherd has no concerns about the depth
or breadth of reviews. John Klensin (the other co-author
of RFC 8141) in particular has provided in-depth feedback,
as have representatives of several national libraries in Europe.
(5) No special reviews are needed.
(6) Although from an editorial perspective several of the sections
could be condensed, the Document Shepherd has no concerns
with the substance of the specification.
(7) The author has confirmed that any and all appropriate
IPR disclosures required for full conformance with the
provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79 have already been filed.
However, he is not personally aware of any such IPR.
(8) No IPR disclosures have been filed with regard to this
document because as far as we know there is no IPR.
(9) This document is not currently the product of a WG, but
there was strong agreement to publish it when it was a
deliverable of the URNBIS WG.
(10) No appeals or expressions of significant discontent have
appeared.
(11) There is an unused reference to RFC 1321.
(12) The document meets the review criteria for registration
of formal URN namespaces as described in RFC 8141.
(13) All references within this document have been identified
as either normative or informative. None of the informative
references should be normative.
(14) There are no normative references to documents that are
not ready for advancement.
(15) There are no downward normative references.
(16) Publication of this document will obsolete RFC 3188, and
this change of status is noted in the title page header, listed
in the abstract, and discussed in the introduction.
(17) The IANA considerations section requests an update to the
existing registration for the NBN URN namespace (in line with
the process specified in RFC 8141), and is consistent with the
body of the document.
(18) No new IANA registries are requested.
(19) The ABNF definition in Section 4.2 has been checked, and
corrections were made in version -01 of the I-D.