Fwd: Re: CLEI Code URN draft

>Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:55:57 -0500
>To: [email protected]
>From: Kaj Tesink <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Entmib] CLEI Code URN draft
>Cc: [email protected]
>
>At 06:47 PM 12/10/2004, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
>>On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:44:15PM -0500, Kaj Tesink wrote:
>>
>> >    The following three examples are based on the examples provided in
>> >    [T1.213a], and correspond with three different sets of features by
>> >    three different manufacturers (Nortel Networks, Lear and Lucent
>> >    Technologies) producing "D4CE" (a particular D4 channel bank type)
>> >    equipment. The fourth example refers to a SONET power unit convertor
>> >    of Alcatel.
>> >
>> >
>> >       URN:CLEI:D4CE18B7AA
>> >       URN:CLEI:D4CE4248AA
>> >       URN:CLEI:D4CE363PAB
>> >       URN:CLEI:SNPWBBC7AA
>>
>>Are these URNs always uppercase? Does case matter here? Would some or
>>all of the following be illegal?
>>
>>         urn:CLEI:D4CE18B7AA
>>         urn:clei:D4CE18B7AA
>>         urn:clei:d4ce18b7aa
>>         urn:CLEI:D4CE18B7AA
>>         URN:CLEI:d4ce18b7aa
>>         URN:clei:d4ce18b7aa
>>         URN:clei:D4CE18B7AA
>>
>>According to RFC 2141, the leading "urn:" sequence is case-insensitive.
>>What about the rest?
>
>
>thanks, good catch; the rest is up to the particular name space.
>in the CLEI case i believe that CLEI codes are always
>uppercase.
>i'll fix that in the CLEI URN name space request
>together with the format issues that Bert found.

i verified with the CLEI gurus; it turns out that while CLEI codes
are usually represented in uppercase, the codes are actually case-insensitive.

as a result, i suggest that we clarify the lexical equivalence clause
as follows:

Rules for lexical equivalence:

Lexical equivalence of two CLEI URN namespace specific strings
is defined as an exact, case-insensitive string match.  CLEI codes
are assigned in a case-insensitive fashion, so that there will
not be two CLEI codes that differ only in case.
See [T1.213] and [T1.213a] for further information.


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>Kaj Tesink
>Telcordia Technologies. Inc.
>One Telcordia drive
>Piscataway, NJ 08854
>Email: [email protected]
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Kaj Tesink
Telcordia Technologies. Inc.
One Telcordia drive
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (732) 699-6068
Fax: (732) 336-2336

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