Uniform Resource Names (URNs)

This specification has been revised 3 times since RFC 2141 (1997). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 2141 (1997)
  2. RFC 2611 (1999)
  3. RFC 3406 (2002)
  4. RFC 8141 (2017)

Current version — implement against this

Superseded versions — historical reference only

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 8141 (April 2017).