[apps-discuss] AppsDir review of draft-saintandre-urn-example

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Sat, 30 March 2013 02:57 UTC

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I have been selected as the Applications Area Directorate (appsdir)
reviewer for this draft.  (For background on appsdir, please see
http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/app/trac/wiki/ApplicationsAreaDirectorate).

Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you
may receive.  Please wait for direction from your document shepherd or AD
before posting a new version of the draft.

Document: draft-saintandre-urn-example
Title: A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Examples
Reviewer: Murray S. Kucherawy
Review Date: March 29, 2013
IETF Last Call Date: not known
IESG Telechat Date: not known

Summary: This document is ready for publication as a BCP, modulo the minor
point I bring up below.

Major Issues: None.

Minor Issues:

I understand that it's appropriate to do this; we have examples for other
namespaces, so it makes sense to have one here too.  But I'm having trouble
seeing how this will be used.  I'm willing to chalk it up to my
unfamiliarity with URNs in general.  Citing your example in Section 4,
doing something XMPP-related using this technique would mean
"urn:example:xmpp:foo", but that's an example-space URN, not an XMPP URN.
Wouldn't one rather register example namespace within the existing XMPP
namespace for doing things like that?  I realize that would mean every
existing URN namespace would have to go through this exercise, but it seems
like it might be a better fit at least for the case mentioned above.

Nits:

Sections 2.11 and 2.12: Periods, please.

In Section 1, you might also make reference to the RFC that reserves some
of the IP address space for examples.  It might be RFC2606 or some other;
apologies for not digging up the reference myself, but I'm sending this
from a place with no net access.

Section 6: Pick either "in" or "under".  Probably the former.