RFC 3121 (rfc3121) - Page 1 of 7
A URN Namespace for OASIS
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Network Working Group K. Best
Request for Comments: 3121 OASIS, Inc.
Category: Informational N. Walsh
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
June 2001
A URN Namespace for OASIS
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document describes a URN (Uniform Resource Name) namespace that
is engineered by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards (OASIS) for naming persistent resources
published by OASIS (such as OASIS Standards, XML (Extensible Markup
Language) Document Type Definitions, XML Schemas, Namespaces,
Stylesheets, and other documents).
1. Introduction
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards (OASIS) produces many kinds of documents: specifications,
working drafts, technical resolutions, schemas, stylesheets, etc.
OASIS wishes to provide global, distributed, persistent, location-
independent names for these resources.
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) requires that all resources
provide a system identifier, which must be a URI, in addition to an
optional public identifier (which provides an alternate mechanism for
constructing identifiers) and many evolving specifications require
authors to identify documents by URI alone (XML Namespaces, XML
Schema, XSLT, etc.).
Motivated by these observations, OASIS would like to assign URNs to
some resources in order to retain unique, permanent location-
independent names for them.
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