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4.2.7. URN

4.2.7. URN

The "Universal Resource Name" is currently (March 1993) under development in the IETF. A requirements specification is in preparation. It currently looks as though it will be a short string suitable for encoding in URI syntax, for which case the "urn:" prefix is reserved. The URN shall be encoded precisely as defined in the (future) URN standard, except in that:

These rules of course apply to any URI scheme. It is of course possible that the URN syntax will be chosen such that the URI encoding will be a 1-1 transcription.

An example might be a name such as

         urn:/iana/dns/ch/cern/cn/techdoc/94/1642-3

but the reader should refer to the latest URN drafts or specifications.


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