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Definition of a Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE)

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Network Working Group                                          R. Morgan
Request for Comments: 3613                           Univ. of Washington
Category: Informational                                      K. Hazelton
                                              Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
                                                            October 2003


     Definition of a Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the
         Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE)

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 (2003).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document describes a Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace for
   the Internet2 Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE).
   This namespace is for naming persistent resources defined by MACE,
   its working groups and other designated subordinates.

1.  Introduction and Community Considerations

   The Internet2 Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE)
   produces many kinds of documents: specifications, working drafts,
   object classes, schemas, stylesheets, etc.  It also defines directory
   attributes and controlled vocabularies for the values of some of
   those attributes.

   MACE wishes to provide global, distributed, persistent, location-
   independent names for these resources.  The Uniform Resource Name
   (URN) variant of URIs meets these requirements.

   MACE working groups and other MACE-affiliated groups will benefit
   from the MACE URN namespace by having an easy, efficient way to
   assign globally unique, persistent identifiers to resources that they
   create.  The nature of MACE work is that serves the needs of one or
   more communities of interest.  A namespace managed so as to
   facilitate the creation, registration and resolution of unique,
   persistent identifiers will be of great value for MACE, its
   affiliates and the higher education community generally.




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