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Requesting a delegated namespace

The InCommon Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) administers a Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace, supporting the assignment of unique, global, persistent names to resources of various kinds. The Namespace Identifier (NID) of the namespace is “urn:mace.” Use the form below to request a URN.

The use of URLs is strongly preferred (vs. a URN). If your goal is to craft globally unique values for eduPersonEntitlement or similar purposes, you should use URLs based on a registered domain you control.

The informational RFC, RFC 3613, defines the “urn:mace” namespace and describes the procedures and policies governing its use. Representatives of organizations interested in registering a urn:mace namespace should first read RFC 3613, and consider the following:

URN:MACE Request Form

Use this form to request a MACE:URN. The use of URLs is strongly preferred (vs. a URN). If your goal is to craft globally unique values for eduPersonEntitlement or similar purposes, you should use URLs based on a registered domain you control.

  • (If the requesting person is also the organizational contact person, please provide a secondary contact, and note that this is the case. The intent is to identify an organizational home for the namespace authority in addition to the registrant him/herself.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.