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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) P. Lemieux Request for Comments: 7972 Sandflow Consulting LLC Obsoletes: 7302 September 2016 Category: Informational ISSN: 2070-1721

 Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) URN Namespace Definition

Abstract

 Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) Identifiers are used for the
 globally unique identification of motion picture and television
 content.  This document defines the formal Uniform Resource Name
 (URN) Namespace Identifier (NID) for EIDR Identifiers.
 This document obsoletes RFC 7302.

Status of This Memo

 This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
 published for informational purposes.
 This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
 (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
 received public review and has been approved for publication by the
 Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Not all documents
 approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
 Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841.
 Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
 and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
 http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7972.

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Table of Contents

 1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
 2.  Completed URN Namespace Definition Template . . . . . . . . .   3
 3.  Namespace Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
 4.  Community Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
 5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
 6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
 7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   7.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   7.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
 Appendix A.  Summary of Changes (Informative) . . . . . . . . . .  10
   A.1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   A.2.  Changes from RFC 7302 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
 Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

1. Introduction

 This document defines the formal Uniform Resource Name (URN)
 Namespace Identifier (NID) for EIDR Identifiers.
 EIDR Identifiers are centrally registered, globally unique
 identifiers for audiovisual works and their variants, primarily film
 and television.  A unique set of metadata parameters describing the
 associated work is bound to the EIDR Identifier at the time of
 registration.
 EIDR Identifiers are a special kind of DOI Name allocated by EIDR
 Association specifically for audiovisual works.  The Digital Object
 Identifier (DOI) system provides an infrastructure for persistent
 unique identification of objects of any type and is specified in
 [ISO26234].  A DOI Name is the identifier that is permanently
 assigned to an object.  The use of DOI Names ensures persistence,
 global uniqueness, and an open resolution infrastructure.
 As a DOI Name, an EIDR Identifier has two components: a prefix
 assigned exclusively to EIDR Association by the DOI Registration
 Authority and a suffix defined by EIDR Association.  Currently, EIDR
 Identifiers use the prefix "10.5240", but additional prefixes might
 be introduced in the future.
 The following is an example of an EIDR Identifier in its canonical
 representation:
                 10.5240/7791-8534-2C23-9030-8610-5
 where "10.5240" is the prefix and "7791-8534-2C23-9030-8610-5" is the
 suffix.

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 The canonical URN representation of the same EIDR Identifier is:
                 urn:eidr:10.5240:7791-8534-2C23-9030-8610-5
 Note that ":" is used as separator between the prefix and the suffix
 since "/" is a URN reserved character.
 [EIDR-OVERVIEW] and [EIDR-INTRO] provide additional background
 information.
 This document obsoletes RFC 7302.  See Appendix A for a summary of
 changes.

2. Completed URN Namespace Definition Template

 The namespace definition according to the template in [RFC3406] is as
 follows:
 Namespace ID:
    eidr
 Registration Information:
    Version 1
    2014-03-03
 Declared registrant of the namespace:
    Name:
       Entertainment Identifier Registry Association
    Address:
       c/o Alliances Management
       544 Hillside Road
       Redwood City, CA 94062
       USA
    Contact:
       URL: http://eidr.org/contact/
       Email: info@eidr.org

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 Declaration of syntactic structure:
    An EIDR Identifier is a special kind of DOI Name (see [ISO26234])
    and, as such, consists of two components: a prefix denoted EIDR-
    PREFIX and a suffix denoted EIDR-SUFFIX.  The URN representation
    URN-EIDR of an EIDR Identifier conforms to the syntax (expressed
    using [RFC5234]):
                 URN-EIDR = "urn:eidr:" EIDR-NSS
                 EIDR-NSS = EIDR-PREFIX ":" EIDR-SUFFIX
                 EIDR-PREFIX = 1*EIDR-CHARS
                 EIDR-SUFFIX = 1*EIDR-CHARS
                 EIDR-CHARS = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_"
    The only value of EIDR-PREFIX currently in use is "10.5240".
    Additional prefix values conforming to the EIDR-PREFIX syntax
    might be introduced by EIDR Association in the future.  In all
    cases, each of these additional prefix values will be associated
    with suffix values that conform to a subset of the EIDR-SUFFIX
    syntax.  These additional prefixes and their corresponding
    suffixes will be documented in future revisions to this
    registration.
    An implementation can process an EIDR-NSS with an unknown prefix
    as an opaque string per the "Rules of Lexical Equivalence" below,
    and resolve it as a generic DOI Name per the "Process for
    identifier resolution" below.
    When EIDR-PREFIX is equal to "10.5240", the syntax of EIDR-SUFFIX
    is further constrained according to the RP2079-SUFFIX syntax
    specified in [SMPTERP2079]:
                 RP2079-SUFFIX = 5(4HEXDIG "-") CHECK
                 CHECK         = DIGIT / ALPHA
    where CHECK is the Mod 37,36 check character as specified in
    [ISO7064], computed over the 20 hexadecimal digits HEXDIG of
    RP2079-SUFFIX.
    EXAMPLE: urn:eidr:10.5240:7791-8534-2C23-9030-8610-5
 Relevant ancillary documentation:
    [ISO26234] specifies DOI Name syntax and registration.
    [SMPTERP2079] specifies the syntax of the EIDR Identifier with the
    prefix "10.5240".

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 Identifier uniqueness considerations:
    An EIDR Identifier is a DOI Name.  The ISO 26324 Registration
    Authority ensures DOI Name uniqueness; therefore, the URN-EIDR
    derived from an EIDR Identifier is guaranteed to be unique and
    never reassigned.
    Furthermore, an EIDR Identifier is associated with a single URN-
    EIDR.
 Identifier persistence considerations:
    An EIDR Identifier is a DOI Name.  The ISO 26324 Registration
    Authority ensures that a DOI Name remains valid indefinitely;
    therefore, the URN-EIDR derived from an EIDR Identifier remains
    valid indefinitely.
 Process of identifier assignment:
    EIDR Association registers each EIDR Identifier with the ISO 26324
    Registration Authority.
    Entities involved in the motion picture and television industry,
    either directly in the production of content or in its
    distribution and related services, are eligible to apply for
    registrant status.  Registrants pay an annual membership fee that
    depends on the size of the company.
 Process for identifier resolution:
    As a DOI Name, the resolution of the EIDR Identifier associated
    with an EIDR-NSS is handled by the ISO 26324 Registration
    Authority.
    The ISO 26324 Registration Authority operates a web service that
    allows the EIDR Identifier associated with an EIDR-NSS to be
    resolved by issuing an HTTP GET request to the following URI (see
    [RFC7231] and [RFC2818]):
                         "https://doi.org/" URN-EIDR
    If the EIDR Identifier exists, then an XML Schema instance
    document (see [XMLSchema]) containing metadata associated with the
    EIDR Identifier is returned; otherwise, the HTTP status code "404
    Not Found" is returned.

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 EXAMPLE: https://doi.org/urn:eidr:10.5240:7791-8534-2C23-9030-8610-5
    NOTE: The web service uses the HTTP Accept header to determine the
    format of the response.  When using a web browser to access the
    resource above, the query string "?locatt=type:Full" is appended
    to the URI to explicitly request an XML response.
    EIDR Association operates additional services specifically
    tailored to EIDR users (see [EIDR-SERVICES] and [DOI-EIDR-PROXY]).
    These services include additional features, e.g., the ability to
    register EIDR Identifiers and web-based GUI tools.
 Rules for Lexical Equivalence:
    Lexical equivalence of the URN-EIDR is defined by case-insensitive
    string match.
    NOTE: The URN-EIDR includes the "urn:eidr:" string, as specified
    under "Declaration of syntactic structure".
 Conformance with URN Syntax:
    As specified above, the syntax of the URN-EIDR is a subset of the
    URN syntax specified in [RFC2141].
 Validation mechanism:
    The validity of an EIDR-NSS can only be guaranteed by completing
    the resolution process.
    For EIDR-NSS with an EIDR-PREFIX equal to "10.5240", the CHECK
    value can be used for integrity checking, as specified above.
 Scope:
    EIDR Identifiers are centrally registered, globally unique
    identifiers for use with audiovisual works worldwide.

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3. Namespace Considerations

 EIDR Identifiers are intended for use in Internet applications, where
 URNs are routinely used to identify audiovisual resources.  There is
 no direct mapping from EIDR Identifiers to existing URN namespaces.

4. Community Considerations

 The primary registrants of EIDR Identifiers are producers and
 distributors of audiovisual works, metadata aggregators, and
 audiovisual archives.  Any bona fide member of the ecosystem can
 become an EIDR member and register any work.  EIDR Identifiers can be
 used by anyone to unambiguously identify an audiovisual asset and
 retrieve underlying metadata.  The primary benefits of their use are
 associated with works in wide distribution, management of long or
 complex distribution chains, and aggregation of information from
 multiple sources.

5. IANA Considerations

 IANA has registered the Formal URN Namespace 'eidr' in the "Uniform
 Resource Names (URN) Namespaces" registry, using the registration
 template in Section 2 of this document.

6. Security Considerations

 This document specifies the syntax of the URN-EIDR namespace and
 makes no security representations.  Furthermore, the details of
 assignment and resolution processes are defined external to this
 document by EIDR Association and the ISO 26324 Registration
 Authority, and are thus outside the scope of this document.  Note,
 however, that failure to conform to the syntactic and lexical
 equivalence rules in this specification when using an EIDR Identifier
 as a criteria for accessing restricted resources can result in
 granting unauthorized access to these resources.

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7. References

7.1. Normative References

 [ISO26234] International Organization for Standardization (ISO), "ISO
            26324:2012 Information and documentation -- Digital object
            identifier system", ISO Standard 26324, June 2012.
 [ISO7064]  International Organization for Standardization,
            "Information technology -- Security techniques -- Check
            character systems", ISO Standard 7064, February 2003.
 [RFC2141]  Moats, R., "URN Syntax", RFC 2141, DOI 10.17487/RFC2141,
            May 1997, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2141>.
 [RFC5234]  Crocker, D., Ed. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
            Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234,
            DOI 10.17487/RFC5234, January 2008,
            <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5234>.
 [SMPTERP2079]
            Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers,
            "Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Name and Entertainment ID
            Registry (EIDR) Identifier Representations",
            DOI 10.5594/SMPTE.RP2079.2013, SMPTE RP 2079, 2014.

7.2. Informative References

 [DOI-EIDR-PROXY]
            Entertainment Identifier Registry Association, "EIDR and
            the DOI Proxy", May 2015,
            <http://eidr.org/documents/EIDR_and_the_DOI_Proxy.pdf>.
 [EIDR-INTRO]
            Entertainment Identifier Registry Association, "EIDR: ID
            Format Ver. 1.1", August 2013,
            <http://eidr.org/documents/EIDR_ID_Format_v1.1.pdf>.
 [EIDR-OVERVIEW]
            Entertainment Identifier Registry Association, "EIDR
            Overview", November 2013, <http://eidr.org/
            documents/2013-11-01_EIDR_Overview_FINAL.pdf>.
 [EIDR-SERVICES]
            Entertainment Identifier Registry Association, "EIDR
            System Version 2.0: Registry User's Guide", August 2013,
            <http://eidr.org/documents/
            EIDR_2.0_Registry_User_Guide.pdf>.

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 [RFC2818]  Rescorla, E., "HTTP Over TLS", RFC 2818,
            DOI 10.17487/RFC2818, May 2000,
            <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2818>.
 [RFC3406]  Daigle, L., van Gulik, D., Iannella, R., and P. Faltstrom,
            "Uniform Resource Names (URN) Namespace Definition
            Mechanisms", BCP 66, RFC 3406, DOI 10.17487/RFC3406,
            October 2002, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3406>.
 [RFC7231]  Fielding, R., Ed. and J. Reschke, Ed., "Hypertext Transfer
            Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content", RFC 7231,
            DOI 10.17487/RFC7231, June 2014,
            <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7231>.
 [rfcdiff]  "Rfcdiff Tool", <https://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcdiff/>.
 [XMLSchema]
            Holstege, M. and A. Vedamuthu, "W3C XML Schema Definition
            Language (XSD): Component Designators", W3C Candidate
            Recommendation CR-xmlschema-ref-20100119, January 2010,
            <http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-xmlschema-ref-20100119>.

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Appendix A. Summary of Changes (Informative)

A.1. Introduction

 This Appendix summarizes changes across revisions of this
 specification.  This summary is informative and not intended to be
 exhaustive.  Readers seeking a definitive list of changes are instead
 encouraged to use tools such as [rfcdiff].

A.2. Changes from RFC 7302

 o  "Process for identifier resolution" paragraph: The syntax for the
    URI supplied to the web service is modified to use (a) the 'https'
    scheme and (b) the URN-EIDR representation of the EIDR Identifier.

Author's Address

 Pierre-Anthony Lemieux
 Sandflow Consulting LLC
 Email: pal@sandflow.com

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