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[Keith Hazelton <>]

A few supportive gestures from Keith
On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 14:15 America/Chicago, RL 'Bob' Morgan  
wrote:

> More hand-waving on this, hoping to crush all dissent ...
> [snip]

> So it seems reasonable to register these
> attribute-defs in some neutral IANA-like spot.  For this (I suggest) we
> choose the "mace-dir" activity, which I think is happy to cover not  
> just
> LDAP-y things but info definition in general.  So "mace-dir" can do  
> Expert
> Review (in the sense of RFC 3383)  of these attribute-def  
> registrations,
> and to reflect this authority we call the registry (as previously
> proposed, I'm just justifying this choice):
>
>   urn:mace:dir:attribute-def

MACE-Dir will indeed do this if asked.

> Now we could think of IANA, and think of a MACE-managed IANA-like  
> service,
> which we might call something like
>
>   urn:mace:mace-registry
>
> which could in principle host all the kinds of registries IANA hosts.   
> I
> guess I'm happy enough with the urn:mace:dir approach for now, and let  
> the
> need for more registries either move us to urn:mace:mace-reg, or  
> establish
> their own registry sub-arcs.

Happy to wait & see how this develops.

> [snip]

> 3.  There is the niggling issue of where the XML representation of EPPN
> and EPSA are specified.  I think that this unfortunately requires a
> separate doc, which would refer to eduPerson, and be referred to by the
> registration of the URNs for these attr-defs.  Perhaps a future  
> revision
> of eduPerson could include this, alongside the LDAP syntax defs.

Sounds good.  Let's talk.

> So that's my story and in my current state of mind it makes as much  
> sense
> as anything else, so I'm hopeful it's persuasive enough that we can  
> decide
> finally to go with the urn:mace:dir:attribute-def URN format.

1 vote yea.   --Keith

>  - RL "Bob"
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