Thanks Barbarra.
With regard to the assignment process text, what you have would work. I
would suggest dropping the text about membership and simply talking
about going through the BBF document creation and approval process.
Yours,
Joel
On 10/27/16 12:53 PM, STARK, BARBARA H wrote:
Hi Joel,
Major issues:
RFC 3406 states that the namespace considerations section should indicate
why a new namespace is needed. While this is pretty obvious, the text does
not actually say anything in that section to explain it.
In particular, I would expect that section to explain why 3 NIDs are needed
rather than just 1.
Thanks for the comments. I propose adding the following text at the end of Namespace
Considerations (the mention of the name change is part of a proposal to resolve a
separate comment asking how "dslforum-org" relates to BBF):
Three NIDs are defined. The "broadband-forum-org" and "dslforum-org"
(Broadband Forum changed its name from DSL Forum in 2008) NIDs have
been used for many years by BBF without formal registration. As they are
referenced by multiple BBF specifications currently in common use, BBF is
requesting to formalize them. The new "bbf" NID will be used for new work
efforts.
Minor issues:
The template in RFC 3406 indicates the the section in each NID on the
Process of identifier assignment should "detail the mechanism and or
authorities for assigning URNs to resources." The draft simply says that the
BBF will provide procedures. Do those procedures exist? If not, there seems
to be a minor problem. If they do exist, it would seem sensible to include a
pointer to the place where the BBF publicly documents those procedures, so
that people using this information who might want to register something can
understand what the rules and expectations are. (I realize that the RFC 6289
example this is based on did not include such a pointer, which is why I am
making this a minor comment instead of a major one.)
I'm struggling a bit with this one in trying to figure out what's the best thing to say here.
At this point in time, URN assignments only happen through creation of a BBF document that
identifies the URN. BBF processes for document creation are published on the members-only part
of the website, and only BBF members can participate in creating a BBF document. There is
currently no plan to allow non-members to register URNs. There is also no plan to allow BBF
members to register URNs for their own use (creating a BBF document requires interest and
participation from at least 3 different companies). Would it be appropriate to say "BBF
procedures for URN assignment are noted at [BBF-RESOURCES]
<http://www.broadband-forum.org/assignments>" and on that page explain that URN
assignment requires BBF membership and going through the BBF project and document processes?
Thanks again,
Barbara
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