At 07:12 AM 2/5/98 -0500, Weibel,Stu wrote:
>Use of persistent identifiers is certainly desireable, though I am
>loathe to plunge our discussions into the philosophic morass of the URN
>tarpits. Seems like we've got enough morasses of our own.
Even though I am one of the strongest proponents of URNs, or other
forms of persistent identifiers, I do not think that the spec should
require them. It says that the related resource should be identified
using an identifier in "common use". Interoperation is the important
criteria.
Regards,
Ron Daniel Jr. voice:+1 505 665 0597
Advanced Computing Lab fax:+1 505 665 4939
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Los Alamos National Lab http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rdaniel
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