RFC 3043 (rfc3043) - Page 2 of 5
The Network Solutions Personal Internet Name (PIN): A URN Namespace for People and Organizations
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RFC 3043 NSI PIN URN Namespace January 2001
A URN namespace is uniquely suited to solve the persistent
identification needs of these applications since they are also
required to be unique and persistent. The availability of a
standardized resolution mechanism makes it possible for other
applications to reference and resolve PIN URNs in their own systems
in an open, non-proprietary way.
This namespace specification is for a formal namespace.
2. Specification Template
Namespace ID:
"pin" requested.
Registration Information:
Registration Version Number: 1
Registration Date: 2000-09-30
Declared registrant of the namespace:
Network Solutions
505 Huntmar Park Drive
Herndon, VA 22070
Declaration of structure:
The structure of the NSS is a flat space of alphanumeric
characters which have no knowable structure outside of the
context of Network Solutions internal resolver. Future changes
to the assignment methods may allow others to assign
sub-spaces of the flat namespace but again, this knowledge is
only valid internally and should never be inferred or relied
upon externally.
Relevant ancillary documentation:
None
Identifier uniqueness considerations:
Identifiers are assigned by Network Solutions proprietary
registration system in a way that guarantees uniqueness. At
this time the algorithm is to iterate from the last assigned
number by some positive integer. In the future this algorithm
may change to incorporate a full range of alphanumeric
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