Using National Bibliography Numbers as Uniform Resource Names
RFC 8458
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(October 2018; No errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 3188
Obsoletes RFC 3188
Was draft-hakala-urn-nbn-rfc3188bis (individual in art area)
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Author | Juna Hakala | ||
Last updated | 2018-12-19 | ||
Replaces | draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc3188bis-nbn-urn | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | Peter Saint-Andre | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2018-06-03) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 8458 (Informational) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Alexey Melnikov | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Hakala Request for Comments: 8458 The National Library of Finland Obsoletes: 3188 October 2018 Category: Informational ISSN: 2070-1721 Using National Bibliography Numbers as Uniform Resource Names Abstract National Bibliography Numbers (NBNs) are used by national libraries and other organizations in order to identify resources in their collections. NBNs are usually applied to resources that are not catered for by established (standard) identifier systems such as International Standard Book Number (ISBN). A Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace for NBNs was established in 2001 in RFC 3188. Since then, a number of European national libraries have implemented URN:NBN-based systems. This document replaces RFC 3188 and defines how NBNs can be supported within the updated URN framework. A revised namespace registration (version 4) compliant to RFC 8141 is included. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are candidates for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8458. Hakala Informational [Page 1] RFC 8458 NBN URNs October 2018 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2018 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Fundamental Namespace and Community Considerations for NBN . 5 3.1. The URN:NBN Namespace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Community Considerations for NBNs . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4. National Bibliography Number URNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1. Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.2. Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.2.1. Usage of r-component and q-component . . . . . . . . 10 4.2.2. Usage of f-component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.3. Encoding Considerations and Lexical Equivalence . . . . . 10 4.4. Resolution and Persistence of NBN-based URNs . . . . . . 12 4.5. Additional Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5. URN Namespace ID (NID) Registration for the National Bibliography Number (NBN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Appendix A. Significant Changes from RFC 3188 . . . . . . . . . 18 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Hakala Informational [Page 2] RFC 8458 NBN URNs October 2018 1. Introduction One of the basic permanent Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes (cf. [RFC3986] and [IANA-URI]) is Uniform Resource Name (URN). URNs were originally defined in RFC 2141 [RFC2141]. In 2017, a revision was adopted with new definitions and registration procedures [RFC8141]. Any traditional identifier, when used within the URN system, must have a namespace of its own that is registered with IANA [IANA-URN]. National Bibliography Number (NBN) is one suchShow full document text