hdl Namespace for Handles 2005-12-07 Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100, Reston, Virginia 20191 http://www.cnri.reston.va.us Catherine Rey crey@cnri.reston.va.us 703-620-8990 The syntax of the handle string is: PREFIX"/"SUFFIX where PREFIX is a globally unique string identifying the administrative unit of the handle; and SUFFIX is any unique "local name" chosen by the prefix holder. Handles may consist of any printable characters from the UCS-2 character set. There is no limit on the length of a handle string, nor on any of its components. A handle SUFFIX may contain any characters defined in UCS-2. A handle PREFIX may contain any characters defined in UCS-2, except the character '/'. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3650.txt By default, handles are case sensitive; however, any handle service may define its namespace under which all ASCII characters within any identifier are case insensitive. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3650.txt 4263537/4000 info:hdl/4263537/4000 http://www.handle.net/overviews/handle-syntax.html http://hdl.handle.net/