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In existing telecommunications systems, many well-known communication and information services are offered by loosely coordinated entities across a large geographic region, with well- known identifiers. These services are characterized by long-term stability of user- visible identifiers, decentralized administration of the underlying service, and a well-defined resolution or mapping mechanism. A Uniform Resource Name (URN) allows us to define such global, well-known services while distributing the actual implementation across a large number of service-providing entities.
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