Network Working Group M. Rose Internet-Draft Dover Beach Consulting, Inc. Expires: March 8, 2002 September 7, 2001 A Transient Prefix for Identifying Profiles under Development by the Working Groups of the IETF draft-mrose-beep-transientid-00 Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on March 8, 2002. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved. Abstract As a part of their deliverables, working groups of the IETF may develop BEEP profiles. During the development process, it is desirable to assign a transient identifier to each profile. If the profile is subsequently published as an RFC, then a permanent identifier is subsequently assigned by the IANA. Rose Expires March 8, 2002 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Transient IDs for BEEP Profiles September 2001 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Rose Expires March 8, 2002 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Transient IDs for BEEP Profiles September 2001 1. Introduction Each BEEP profile [1] is identified by a URI [2]. If the BEEP profile appears on the standards-track [3], then the IANA is responsible for assigning the URI associated with the BEEP profile. Otherwise, the entity specifying the BEEP profile is free to assign a URI under its administration to the profile. If a working group of the IETF is developing a BEEP profile, then, during the development process, it is desirable to use a transient identifier for the profile. Further, it is desirable that the transient identifier be associated with the working group. This memo defines the practice for making such an assignment. 2. Practice When a working group is formed, the IETF secretariat assigns a brief mneumonic prefix to the working group, e.g., "provreg" or "sacred". When a working group begins development of a document which specifies a BEEP profile, the working group chair assigns a transient identifier of the form "http://iana.org/beep/transient/XXX/YYY" where "XXX" is the working group's mneumonic and "YYY" is a unique string. For example, http://iana.org/beep/transient/provreg/EPP http://iana.org/beep/transient/sacred/PDM might be assigned by the chairs of the "provreg" and "sacred" working groups, respectively. Following this, the working group chair completes a BEEP profile registration template, and submits this information to the IANA. References [1] Rose, M., "The Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol Core", RFC 3080, March 2001. [2] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", RFC 2396, August 1998. [3] Hovey, R. and S. Bradner, "The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process", BCP 11, RFC 2028, October 1996. Rose Expires March 8, 2002 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Transient IDs for BEEP Profiles September 2001 Author's Address Marshall T. Rose Dover Beach Consulting, Inc. POB 255268 Sacramento, CA 95865-5268 US Phone: +1 916 483 8878 EMail: mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us Appendix A. IANA Considerations The IANA maintains a registry of transient identifiers used for BEEP profiles under development in the IETF, using the profile registration template defined in Section 5.1 of [1]. Note that unlike the registration procedures defined in Appendix B of [1], the working group chair (instead of the IESG) is responsible for authorizing the registration. Rose Expires March 8, 2002 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Transient IDs for BEEP Profiles September 2001 Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved. 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