Pathway B of 5
Naming and Authority
Who may name and issue identities, and under which rules?
RRNs and RSNs, prefixes and their allocation, registered kinds, the authority to issue, and why delegated authority is never ownership.
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The Anatomy of RSM ID
RSM ID is not one identifier but a system of seven cooperating parts. This Journal takes them apart one by one — RID, RRN, RSN, Identity Record, the four registries, issuance authority, and resolution under the v1.1 HTTP profile — and shows why each is kept separate from the others.
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RID, RRN, and RSN
Three constructs that are easy to blur: the RID identifies, an RRN names, and an RSN names a Semantic Space that has an RID of its own.
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RRN
A registered, structured name that maps to exactly one RID.
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RSN
A specialized RRN, of kind “space”, that identifies a Semantic Space.
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Prefix
The registered issuance namespace at the start of an RID.
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Issuance authority
A registered issuer permitted to issue identities within a delegated namespace.
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Identity Registry
Preserves identity, namespace allocation, authority, historical mappings, and lifecycle information.
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Registration and controlled issuance
Prefixes, delegated authority, the controlled issuance sequence, idempotent retries, and permanent non-reuse — the rules that make an RID trustworthy before anyone resolves it.
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Why a Semantic Space has both an RID and an RSN
Why each Semantic Space carries a registered name and a separate permanent identifier, and what goes wrong when either is mistaken for the other — or for the server.
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Why identity is not ownership
Why RSM ID keeps issuance authority, legal ownership, custody, and stewardship as separate relationships — and what would break if it did not.