This page documents the process for assigning new URNs and OIDs as of August 2018. This function has been handled by Keith Hazelton, Jim Jokl and Emily Eisbruch in recent years. It may be transitioned to a different area of the Internet2 organization / community with the sunsetting of the MACE-Directories working group in fall 2018.
Overview
- The MACE URN and OID documentation is found on the Interent2 website here: https://www.internet2.edu/products-services/trust-identity/mace-registries/
- See the original MACE URL RFC here https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3613
- Frequency of Requests for URNS and OIDs:
- URNs: Since 2015 Internet2 has tried to discourage new URN requests with a note about a preference for URLs. See here: https://www.internet2.edu/products-services/trust-identity/mace-registries/#service-faq However we still get several URN requests each year. There were
- 4 new URNs in 2016
- 6 new URNs in 2017
- 3 new URNs in 1st half of 2018
- OIDs: There was only one change to the OID registry in the past 5 years. That was forTIER Data Structures and APIs work. The requestor was Keith Hazelton. https://www.internet2.edu/products-services/trust-identity/mace-registries/internet2-object-identifier-oid-registrations/
- URNs: Since 2015 Internet2 has tried to discourage new URN requests with a note about a preference for URLs. See here: https://www.internet2.edu/products-services/trust-identity/mace-registries/#service-faq However we still get several URN requests each year. There were
URN Process
- Request for an URN
- The MACE URN request form is found here: https://www.internet2.edu/products-services/trust-identity/mace-registries/urnmace-request-form/
- The form is to be copied and sent be email to mace-submit@internet2.edu
- The recipients of the email are Keith Hazelton, Jim Jokl, Emily Eisbruch and Dean Woodbeck.
- Processing the URN Request
- Upon receipt of an email requesting an URN, Keith and Jim do some checking to be sure the institution is actually and R&E Institution? and other checking???
- Assuming Keith and Jim approve the request, they reply to the requestor, with a copy to mace-submit@internet2.edu informing that the request has been approved.
- Emily then adds the URN to the bottom of the table on this web page https://www.internet2.edu/products-services/trust-identity/mace-registries/urnmace-namespace/
- Emily has been adding the URNs to the web table using the source code editing feature in Django content manager. It is also possible to add a table row without editing the source code. Here is info from webmaster Mike Creech as of Aug 2018:
- Once you have opened the page and double-clicked on the text plugin with the table in it, you can right-click with your mouse on the previous row of the table and be offered the option to insert a new row.
- Emily has been adding the URNs to the web table using the source code editing feature in Django content manager. It is also possible to add a table row without editing the source code. Here is info from webmaster Mike Creech as of Aug 2018:
- Emily emails the submitter, copying mace-submit@internet2.edu informing the submitter that their URN is on the website.
- Maintaining the URNs
- occasionally someone emails with an update of the contact person to their existing URN. I this case, Emily makes the update on the website and replies that the update has been made.
- See sample emails for an URN request and approval here
OID Process
The OID requestor sends an email to mace-submit@internet2.edu as explained here https://www.internet2.edu/products-services/trust-identity/mace-registries/#service-registries
- Keith or Jim respond.
- Emily updates the website.
- There has only been one OID request in recent years. That was for TIER.