Freek Dijkstra wrote:
Adaptation Function id urn:ieee:802.3ab urn:ieee:802.3ab name 1000base-T urn:ieee:802.3ab client layer urn:ieee:802.3-2005 urn:ieee:802.3ab server layer urn:ansi:eia-568-a
Adaptation Function id urn:ieee:802.3-clause38 urn:ieee:802.3-clause38 name 1000base-LX urn:ieee:802.3-clause38 client layer urn:ieee:802.3-2005 urn:ieee:802.3-clause38 server layer urn:itu:fiber-8micron
where urn:ieee:802.3-2005, urn:ansi:eia-568-a and urn:itu:fiber-8micron are layers -- I think we should define a class for this too. client layer and server layer are attributes of the Adaptation Function class.
I strongly suggest not to invent urn's like this, even if this is just an example. This will be archived on the web and can always be found later. We do not know at all whether IEEE, ANSI or the ITU have URN namespaces like this. Or even if they do, that they want to identify their technologies like this. In absence of a better identifier I suggest using a URL to the standard. Or the group that wrote the standard if none is available. I agree that this is incredibly annoying, and that we'll probably have to maintain a list with identifiers for technologies. But we can't just make stuff up while referring to other standards organisations. So: 802.3ab: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ab/index.html eia-568-a: http://standardsdocuments.tiaonline.org/tia-eia-568.htm 802.3-2008: http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.3.html etc. Jeroen.