RFC 3615 (rfc3615) - Page 1 of 5
A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for SWIFT Financial Messaging
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Network Working Group J. Gustin
Request for Comments: 3615 A. Goyens
Category: Informational SWIFT
September 2003
A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace
for SWIFT Financial Messaging
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 that
is managed by SWIFT for usage within messages standardized by SWIFT.
1. Introduction
SWIFT is an industry-owned cooperative supplying secure, standardised
messaging services and interface software to over 7,500 financial
institutions in 199 countries. The SWIFT community includes banks,
broker/dealers and investment managers, as well as their market
infrastructures in payments, securities, treasury and trade.
The goal of this namespace is to ensure the stability and uniqueness
of the names of various items that are used within the messages
exchanged between financial institutions. SWIFT is one of the
principal standardization bodies for financial messages and services.
This standardization process identifies the structure and meaning of
messages exchanged for various financial services offered by
financial institutions. It is essential that names of items (such as
the XML schema describing the message itself) can be used to identify
the resource even years after the message has been exchanged.
The same resource may exist in multiple physical locations, and thus
multiple URL's, but only a single URN.
Gustin & Goyens Informational