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tviegut authored Oct 31, 2024
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By convention, namespaces most commonly signify who the issuing authority of whatever class representation follows. The CIM UML model itself is open source and is made available under the Apache 2.0 open source license. Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) such as the [International Electrotechnical Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission) (IEC) or the [European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity](https://www.entsoe.eu/) (ENTSO-E) may freely utilize the CIM under its licensing terms. The IEC, for instance, utilized the CIM as the foundation for the development of International Standards to support Transmission and Distribution operations and various backoffice functions. In practical applications, CIM standards published by the IEC are often used alongside project and vendor-specific extensions. Each of these may have an independent author. Separate namespaces are used to prevent name conflicts between them.
By convention, namespaces most commonly signify who the issuing authority of whatever class representation follows. The CIM UML model itself is open source and is made available under the Apache 2.0 open source license. Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) such as the [International Electrotechnical Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission) (IEC) or the [European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity](https://www.entsoe.eu/) (ENTSO-E) may freely utilize the CIM under its licensing terms. The IEC, for instance, utilizes the CIM as the foundation for the development of International Standards to support Transmission and Distribution operations and various backoffice functions. In practical applications, CIM standards published by the IEC are often used alongside project and vendor-specific extensions. Each of these may have an independent author. Separate namespaces are used to prevent name conflicts between them.

Namespaces don't carry much information in themselves. A namespace can be any string but it is common and recommended to use an HTTP URI (e.g. `http://authority/...`) because it translates well to conventions followed in generated schemas (e.g. XML Schema) and it identifies the issuing authority. This is the convention commonly followed by many SDOs. For example, someone can easily find more information on the issuing authoriy by using something like [whois](https://www.whois.com/whois).

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