Network Working Group A. Forte Internet-Draft H. Schulzrinne Intended status: Standards Track Columbia University Expires: September 24, 2009 March 23, 2009 Policy for defining new service-identifying labels draft-forte-ecrit-service-urn-policy-00.txt Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on September 24, 2009. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents in effect on the date of publication of this document (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Abstract In order to provide location-based services, descriptive terms for services need to be defined. This document updates the policy for defining new service-identifying labels. Forte & Schulzrinne Expires September 24, 2009 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Service URN Policy March 2009 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Requirements notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1. New Service-Identifying Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Forte & Schulzrinne Expires September 24, 2009 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Service URN Policy March 2009 1. Introduction Nowadays location-based services are widespread. Devices can detect a user location and retrieve all available services in the sourroundings of that location. A particular service can be described by one or multiple terms such as "restaurant", "parking" and "ATM machine". All such terms, however, need to be formally defined so that a registry can be built and used to assure consistency and compatibility between devices and between service providers. Since descriptive terms for services are almost unbounded, such registry would contain the most common terms. In this document we update the policy for defining new terms, that is new service-identifying labels. 2. Requirements notation The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. 3. IANA Considerations 3.1. New Service-Identifying Labels This document updates Section 4.1 of [RFC5031] in that the policy for adding top-level service labels is "Expert Review". The expert is designated by the RAI Area Director. 4. Security Considerations This document does not raise security issues. 5. References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC5031] Schulzrinne, H., "A Uniform Resource Name (URN) for Emergency and Other Well-Known Services", RFC 5031, January 2008. Forte & Schulzrinne Expires September 24, 2009 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Service URN Policy March 2009 Authors' Addresses Andrea G. Forte Columbia University Department of Computer Science 1214 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 0401 New York, NY 10027 USA Email: andreaf@cs.columbia.edu Henning Schulzrinne Columbia University Department of Computer Science 1214 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 0401 New York, NY 10027 USA Email: hgs@cs.columbia.edu Forte & Schulzrinne Expires September 24, 2009 [Page 4]