RFC 5138 · INFORMATIONAL · 2008

A Uniform Resource Name Namespace for the Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information

Overview

RFC 5138, “A Uniform Resource Name Namespace for the Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information”, is an Informational document published in February 2008 by S. Cox. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes a URN (Uniform Resource Name) namespace that is engineered by the Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) for naming (i) persistent resources published by the CGI and (ii) resources published by organizations that wish them to be used in the context of services conforming to protocols and agreements issued by CGI. The formal Namespace Identifier (NID) is "cgi". This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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