[urn] Re: Request to register urn:glue

Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Mar 2026 08:02:56 -0700
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On 3/4/26 5:36 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Comments on draft-ietf-spice-glue-id-07:
> 
> 2.1.  Uniqueness and Namespacing
> 
>     Each GLUE URI MUST be globally unique.
> 
>     An organization can be identified by multiple GLUE URIs, but each
>     GLUE URI can only refer to a single organization.
> 
> The first of these sentences doesn't make much sense, since of course
> "any two GLUE URIs" means any two that are different.  All of the
> meaning you want is captured in the second sentence.

I think what the authors might be trying to say in the first clause is 
that if multiple External Authorities have issued identifiers for the 
same organization (e.g., the organization has both a Dun & Bradstreet 
number and a Private Enterprise Number), then the same organization can 
be identified by GLUE URNs differentiated by the authority identifier.

Peter

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