RFC 3616 (rfc3616) - Page 2 of 8
A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA)
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RFC 3616 URN Namespace for FIPA September 2003
1. Introduction
The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) was established
in 1996 in Geneva, Switzerland. FIPA is an international non-profit
association of companies and organizations dedicated to promoting the
industry of intelligent agents by openly developing specifications
supporting interoperability among agents and agent-based
applications. The core mission of the FIPA standards consortium is
to facilitate the interworking of agents and agent systems across
multiple vendors' platforms. Since its inception, FIPA has counted
more than 60 member companies from over 20 different countries
worldwide.
FIPA publishes technical specifications, schemas, diagrams and other
documentation related to the area of Agent technology. FIPA wishes
to create and manage globally unique, persistent, location-
independent identifiers for these resources.
2. Specification Template
Namespace ID:
"fipa"
Registration Information:
Version 1
Date: 2002-02-28
Declared registrant of the namespace:
Name: FIPA Secretariat (J. Kelly)
E-mail:
Affiliation: Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA)
Address: c/o Me Jean-Pierre Jacquemoud
2, rue Bellot
CH-1206 Geneve
Declaration of structure:
The identifier has a hierarchical structure as follows:
urn::{subspace-id1}:{subspace-id2}:...
subspace-ids can be any US-ASCII string compliant with URI syntax
and not containing the ":" character. The subspaces are used to
divide the assigned namespace along one or more logical schemes.
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