Internet Draft                                                J-P. Evain
<draft-evain-ebu-urn-01.txt>                              EBU URN Scheme
Category: Informational                                              EBU
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              A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for
                 the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
                      <draft-evain-ebu-urn-01.txt>

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Abstract

   This document describes a Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace for
   the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for naming persistent
   resources defined within EBU technical documentation and Internet
   resources. Example resources include technical documents and
   specifications, eXtensible Markup Language(XML) Schemas,
   classification schemes, XML Document Type Definitions (DTDs),
   namespaces, style sheets, media assets, and other types of resources
   produced or managed by EBU.



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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................2
   2. Specification Template ..........................................2
   3. Examples ........................................................6
   4. Namespace Considerations ........................................6
   5. Community Considerations ........................................7
   6. Security Considerations .........................................7
   7. IANA Considerations .............................................8
   8. References ......................................................8
   9. Copyright Notice.................................................9
  10. Intellectual Property...........................................10


1.  Introduction

   The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is the largest non-for profit
   professional association of broadcasters worldwide established
   since 1950. The Union has more than 70 active members in 55
   countries in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and more
   than 40 associate members in 25 countries further afield. The
   EBU negotiates broadcasting rights for major sport events, operates
   the Eurovision and Euroradio networks, organises programme exchanges
   and co-productions, and provides other operational, and legal
   support. It provides technical advice to its members and favours the
   adoption of standardised solutions in broadcast systems from content
   ingest to end-user delivery. EBU activities cover traditional
   broadcast and new delivery medias such as the Internet for which a
   growing number or resources are being developped.

   EBU would like to assign unique, permanent, location-independent
   names based on URNs for some resources it produces or manages.

   This namespace specification is for a formal namespace.


2.  Specification Template

   Namespace ID:

      "ebu"

   Registration Information:

      Version: 1
      Date: 2007-03-20


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   Declared registrant of the namespace:

      Name:           jean-Pierre Evan
      Title:          Senior Engineer
      Affiliation:    European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
      Address:        Ancienne Route 17a
                      CH-1218 Geneva
                      SWITZERLAND
      Phone:          +41 22 717 2734
      Email:          evain@ebu.ch



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   Declaration of structure:

      URNs assigned by EBU will have the following hierarchical
      structure based on the organisational structure of the EBU
      resources:

         urn:tva:{category}:{string}

      where "{category}" and "{string}" are US-ASCII strings that
      conforms to URN Syntax requirements ([RFC2141]).

      The individual URNs will be assigned by EBU through the process
      of development of EBU resources.


   Relevant ancillary documentation:

      More information on EBU and relevant technical activities can be
      found at ([www.ebu.ch]).


   Identifier uniqueness considerations:

      EBU will establish unique identifiers as appropriate.

      Uniqueness is guaranteed as long as the assigned string is never
      reassigned.


   Identifier persistence considerations:

      The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is committed to maintaining
      the accessibility and persistence of all resources that are
      officially assigned URNs by the organization.  Persistence of
      identifiers is dependent upon suitable delegation at the level of
      "{category}"s, and persistence of category assignment.


   Process of identifier assignment:

      All the assignment of identifiers are fully controlled and
      managed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).


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   Process of identifier resolution:

      The owner will develop and maintain "URN catalogues" that map all
      assigned URNs to Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) specifically to
      enable Web-based resolution of named resources.  In the future an
      interactive online resolution system may be developed to automate
      this process.

      The owner will authorize additional resolution services as
      appropriate.


   Rules for Lexical Equivalence:

      The "{category}" is case-insensitive. Thus, the portion of the
      URN:

                   urn:ebu:{category}:

      is case-insensitive for matches.  The remainder of the identifier
      shall be considered case-sensitive; hence, URNs are only
      lexically equivalent if they are also lexically identical in the
      remaining "{string}" field.


   Conformance with URN Syntax:

      No special considerations.


   Validation mechanism:

      The owner will develop and maintain URN
      catalogues.  The presence of a URN in a catalogue indicates that
      it is valid. Validation shall more particularly be done by a
      syntax grammar corresponding to each "{category}".


   Scope:

      Global


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3.  Examples

   The following examples are not guaranteed to be real. They are
   presented for pedagogical reasons only.

      urn:ebu:metadata:pmeta:2007
      urn:ebu:metadata:cs:EscortCS:2007
      urn:other:anytype:version


4.  Namespace Considerations

   URN assignment procedures:

      The individual URNs shall be assigned through the process of
      development of EBU resources by the European Broadcasting Union
      (EBU).

   URN resolution/delegation:

      The resolution and delegation shall be determined through the
      process of development of EBU resources by the European
      Broadcasting Union (EBU).


   Type of resources to be identified:

      Types of resources to be identified include XML schema definition
      files, classification schemes and identification systems.

   Type of services to be supported:

      Types of services supported include controlled term lookup in
      classification schemes, resolution of ids in identification
      systems.


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5.  Community Considerations

 Potential beneficiary communities include:

       a) Implementers and users of EBU resources.

          Resources that comply with the EBU specifications
          (including schemas, instance documents that comply with
          EBU schemas, and EBU default Classification Schemes) may, by
          means of the registered namespace, become exposed to the
          general Internet and gain from the interoperability benefits
          of the Internet at large.

       b) Implementers of other specifications that incorporate part of
          all of available EBU resources.

          URNs used to identify EBU resources may be used to enable
          their inclusion in, and enhancement of, other specifications
          while maintaining, to a certain degree, interoperability with
          the EBU (see a) above).

       c) Implementers of other semantically related specifications that
          do not directly incorporate part or all of EBU resources.

          URNs used to identify EBU resources,such as identifiers of
          terms within default Classification Schemes, may enable
          interoperation with other semantically determined
          specifications (including present and future metadata/resource
          description and ontology specifications) of relevance to EBU
          implementation communities (see a) and b)above).

6.  Security Considerations

   There are no additional security considerations other than those
   normally associated with the use and resolution of URNs in general.


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7.  IANA Considerations

   The IANA has registered formal URN namespace XXX, to EBU within the
   IANA registry of URN NIDs.


8.  References

8.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2141]  Moats, R., "URN Syntax", May 1997.

Authors' Addresses

   Jean-Pierre Evain
   European Broadcasting Union
   Technical Department
   L'ancienne route 17A
   CH-1218 Grand-Saconnex (GE)
   SWITZERLAND
   Tel: +41 22 717 2734
   Fax: +41 22 74 74 734
   Email: evain@ebu.ch




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