[Nsi-wg] Network and STP Identifiers

Henrik Thostrup Jensen htj at nordu.net
Wed Oct 8 09:58:47 EDT 2014


On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, John MacAuley wrote:

> The full length of an ID must not exceed 255 characters.

Are we sure everyone adheres to this one? I have seen some very long STPs 
thrown around.

> A STPID must not contain percentage-encoded characters ("%" HEXDIG HEXDIG). It should also be
> noted that the following characters (which are either allowed by the URI or URN
> specification) must not be used in the NETWORKLOCALPART or STPLOCALPART of a network resource
> URN: "%", "/", "?", "#", and "'".

What is our plan when we run into something that is actually strict about 
not having '?' in URNs.


     Best regards, Henrik

  Henrik Thostrup Jensen <htj at nordu.net>
  Software Developer, NORDUnet



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