Hi
On Wed 26-Feb-2003 at 11:06:01AM -0000, Jon Hanna wrote:
>
> The web way of identifying anything is to use URIs. "Persistent"
> in this case has slightly different definitions depending on what
> is required. Sometimes there is a requirement that the URI can
> always be dereferenced as a URL, other times the only requirement
> is that it is not used as an identifier for another item (a
> timestamp in the URI itself is normally sufficient to guarantee
> that). Sometimes there is a requirement that the entity issuing
> the URI can reasonably guarantee that they will continue to
> control the domain, and hence the right to issue the URIs, which
> shouldn't be an too difficult for a government body.
+1
Some useful background reading documents on this:
W3C Persistence Policy
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Persistence
URIs for W3C namespaces
http://www.w3.org/1999/10/nsuri
Cool URIs don't change
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
Chris
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