RFC 5141 · INFORMATIONAL · 2008

A Uniform Resource Name Namespace for the International Organization for Standardization

Overview

RFC 5141, “A Uniform Resource Name Namespace for the International Organization for Standardization”, is an Informational document published in March 2008 by J. Goodwin, H. Apel. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes a Uniform Resource Name Namespace Identification (URN NID) for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This URN NID is intended for use for the identification of persistent resources published by the ISO standards body (including documents, document metadata, extracted resources such as standard schemata and standard value sets, and other resources). This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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