[urn] Re: 2nd request to register URN for WMO

Dear Peter, Thank you for your response and advice. I'll send a revised version soon.


Best regards, Anna Milan

Scientific Officer

WIS Branch, Infrastructure Department

World Meteorological Organization

https://community.wmo.int/activity-areas/wis

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From: Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 19:05
To: Anna Milan <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [urn] 2nd request to register URN for WMO

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On 2/18/25 3:48 AM, Anna Milan wrote:
> Dear IETF, I'm resending this request as I haven't received any response.

Hi Anna,

I'm sorry if you didn't receive a reply to your previous message. I
don't see anything about WMO in the mailing list archives, but I might
be missing something. Perhaps your previous message didn't go through?

In any case, here is some feedback on your registration request...

> ----
> *Namespace Identifier:*  wmo *Version:*  1 *Date:*  2024-11-26
> *Registrant: *
>    World Meteorological Organization
>    7bis, avenue de la Paix, Case postale No. 2300 ·
>    1211 Geneva Switzerland
> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwmo.int%2F&data=05%7C02%7Camilan%40wmo.int%7C6aad20d8cc2941ad296f08dd5046e106%7Ceaa6be54468740c49827c044bd8e8d3c%7C0%7C0%7C638754987552824842%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=o4i3AafpWE241VkxxJldKVOJnSZN0KeIQtxhZO8439s%3D&reserved=0<https://wmo.int/> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwmo.int%2F&data=05%7C02%7Camilan%40wmo.int%7C6aad20d8cc2941ad296f08dd5046e106%7Ceaa6be54468740c49827c044bd8e8d3c%7C0%7C0%7C638754987552854732%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ui%2FmEwUc1wcUOWtpSvh1jJEBcAgSFE4WoVgUpNKBjW0%3D&reserved=0<https://wmo.int/>>
>
> *Registrant Contact*:
>     Anna Milan
>     [email protected]

In general, to future-proof the registration we like to see a
non-personal email address, such as [email protected] or [email protected]
(those are merely examples).

> *Purpose*:  The use of the WMO URN is defined in the WMO Core Metadata
> Profile standard to uniquely identify metadata records that describe
> datasets exchanged internationally via the WMO Information System.

> *Syntax*:  Not applicable (/please let me know if need to add something
> here/)

Every namespace specific string has some kind of syntax. You can look at
existing registrations to see how other registrants have handled this in
the past. A good example is the ISBN namespace:

https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iana.org%2Fassignments%2Furn-formal%2Fisbn&data=05%7C02%7Camilan%40wmo.int%7C6aad20d8cc2941ad296f08dd5046e106%7Ceaa6be54468740c49827c044bd8e8d3c%7C0%7C0%7C638754987552873961%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fh4pWclwfokVQc3g3K3t5lbqBdd7gdaHkIKE6UvI01U%3D&reserved=0<https://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-formal/isbn>

It does seem that WMO has some syntax in mind, because I found the
following examples:

urn:wmo:md:ca-eccc-msc:weather.observations.swob-realtime
urn:wmo:md:de-dwd:icon-eps.ALL
urn:wmo:md:fr-meteofrance-global-broker:gb

Copied from
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwmo-im.github.io%2Fwcmp2%2Fstandard%2Fwcmp2-STABLE.html%23examples&data=05%7C02%7Camilan%40wmo.int%7C6aad20d8cc2941ad296f08dd5046e106%7Ceaa6be54468740c49827c044bd8e8d3c%7C0%7C0%7C638754987552892279%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3qYN4RH7SQnrKhTo1%2FHwgBOi21yePIK1PGB9hcDf3f8%3D&reserved=0<https://wmo-im.github.io/wcmp2/standard/wcmp2-STABLE.html#examples>

*Assignment*:  Completely open

As described in RFC 8141 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rfc-editor.org%2Frfc%2Frfc8141&data=05%7C02%7Camilan%40wmo.int%7C6aad20d8cc2941ad296f08dd5046e106%7Ceaa6be54468740c49827c044bd8e8d3c%7C0%7C0%7C638754987552910495%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0ElXjNkmkVRdoCZE43EBVU%2BO2FD%2B%2BcMHGmsDPJ4iLys%3D&reserved=0<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8141>>
"assignment of a URN is a managed process". How does the WMO plan to
assign or approve URNs in the urn:wmo namespace? To me, "completely
open" sounds like "anything goes" and I doubt that's how the WMO
operates. :-)

> *Security and Privacy:*  As far as
> I know, there are no issues with security and privacy.
> *Interoperability*:  As far as I know, there are no issues with
> interoperability. *Resolution*:  At this time, there are no plans to
> manage a resolution service. *Documentation*:

If the WMO Core Metadata Profile standard is available online, it would
be good to include a URL here. The link I found at github.io is probably
not stable, but https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.wmo.int%2Fen%2Factivity-areas%2Fwis%2Fwcmp2&data=05%7C02%7Camilan%40wmo.int%7C6aad20d8cc2941ad296f08dd5046e106%7Ceaa6be54468740c49827c044bd8e8d3c%7C0%7C0%7C638754987552929638%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=B68rMqFII12slO4pozwbuxuGg4d8w12Zf4jSAxTnZYc%3D&reserved=0<https://community.wmo.int/en/activity-areas/wis/wcmp2>
might be better.

Best Regards,

Peter

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