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Re: Registered Namespace prefixes


registration and namespace prefixes
<Quote>
> Ok, put another way:  what is the information
> registered?  What rights does it infer or confer? What
> validates that registration and any associations
> made as a result of registration? What responsibilities
> will the registrar assume given a dispute? (See
> the Copyright Office).  What responsibilities will
> the registrar explicitly disavow?  If one mirrors it,
> is one a registrar or a site serviced by a registrar?
</Quote>

If you're familiar with the ISO 11179 standard ("Information technology
-- Specification and standardization of data elements"), it defines many
of the things you mention above in terms of roles such as "Registration
Authority" (RA), "Submitting Organization" (SO), and "Responsible
Organization" (RO).  This standard has been around for quite some time
(at least 12 years), and is still being referred to today in other
standards such as ebXML and UBL.

Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote:
> 
> Thus will begin the stampede to reserve namespace identifiers
> as the www.anyNamePopularOrSellableRipItoff.com problem showed.
> 
> Anyone registering a namespace identifier must
> own it.  How to prove that in a low-maintenance
> way?
> 
> Ok, put another way:  what is the information
> registered?  What rights does it infer or confer? What
> validates that registration and any associations
> made as a result of registration? What responsibilities
> will the registrar assume given a dispute? (See
> the Copyright Office).  What responsibilities will
> the registrar explicitly disavow?  If one mirrors it,
> is one a registrar or a site serviced by a registrar?
> 
> len
> 
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard@r...]
> 
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:45:11PM -0500, Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> > Absolutely. As mentioned in my previous e-mails on this thread, the
> > registration of namespace prefixes is not a viable idea, but the
> > registration of namespace identifiers is (in my opinion).
> 
>   Okay the unicity being actually managed by other means (DNS or
> IANA) it seems one of the main problems associated to registries
> vanishes. There is still the trouble associated to the centralized
> aspect of such a database, but that can be minimized by sharing
> openly the content of the database and allowing free mirroring of
> the information herein.
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