Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Murdock
Request for Comments: 7467 NATO C&I Agency
Category: Informational April 2015
ISSN: 2070-1721
URN Namespace for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Abstract
This document allocates a formal Uniform Resource Name (URN)
namespace for assignment by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), as specified in RFC 3406. At this time, the URN will be used
primarily to uniquely identify Extensible Markup Language (XML)
artefacts that provide information about NATO message text formats
and service specifications as described in various NATO standards,
instructions, and publications.
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Historically, NATO has used standardized character-oriented message
text formats (MTF) to interoperate, report, and exchange information
both among its commands and with national entities, commercial
partners, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). These MTFs are
generated using the NATO Message Text Formatting System (FORMETS) in
accordance with the rules, constructions, and vocabulary specified
within the Allied Data Publication Number 3 (ADatP-3). Almost 400
NATO-defined messages that conform to ADatP-3 are contained in the
Allied Procedural Publication Number 11 (APP-11) NATO Message
Catalogue [7].
Prior to 2008, these messages were only available as slash-delimited
textual messages. Since 2008, the APP-11 message catalogue also
includes XML-MTF definitions for these messages, giving rise to a
need to define and manage a URN namespace to name the XML namespaces.
To address this need, this document requests that a formal URN space
type be assigned as described in Section 4.3 of RFC 3406.
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RFC 7467 URN Namespace for NATO April 2015
2. Specification Template
2.1. Namespace ID
The Namespace ID (NID) "nato" has been assigned by IANA.
2.2. Registration Information
Version 1
Date: 2014-09-11
2.3. Declared Registrant of the Namespace
Registering Organization:
Name: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Communications & Information Agency (NCIA)
Address: SHAPE, 7010, Belgium
Declared Contact: NATO Naming and Addressing Registration
Authority (NRA)
Email: nra@ncia.nato.int
2.4. Declaration of Syntactic Structure
The Namespace Specific String (NSS) of all URNs that use the "nato"
NID shall have the following structure: