I definitely see your point.
But I can't count on my _organization_ to maintain any of this stuff _at
all_ after I leave. My organization is not in that business.
I suppose I could lay down the money for 100 years of a hostname
registration myself right now, as a donation to the community, and call
it a day, and leave it to someone else to figure out in 100 years. :)
Jonathan
Erik Hetzner wrote:
At Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:18:24 -0400,
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
I am not interested in maintaining a sudoc.info registration, and
neither is my institution, who I wouldn't trust to maintain it (even to
the extent of not letting the DNS registration expire) after I left. I
think even something as simple as this really needs to be committed to
by an organization. So yeah, even "willing to take on the
responsibility of owning that domain until such time as something useful
can be done with it," I do not have, and to me that seems like a
requirement, not just a nice to have.
I see your point. I believe that registering a domain would be less
work than going through an info URI registration process, but I don’t
know how difficult the info URI registration process would be (thus
bringing the conversation full circle). [1]
But it certainly is another option. I feel like most people have the
_expectation_ of http resolvability for http URIs though, even
though it isn't actually required. If you want there to be an actual
http server there at ALL, even one that just responds to all
requests with a link to the SuDoc documentation, that's another
thing you need.
I think there is a strong expectation that if I resolve a URI, I do
not end up with a domain squatter. Otherwise I am not so sure what is
expected when using an HTTP URI whose primary purpose is
identification, not dereferencing. Personally I would be happy to get
either a page telling me to check back later [2], or nothing at all.
best,
Erik Hetzner
1. My last word on this. Because I am already beating a dead horse, I
have put it in a footnote. For $100 and basically no time at all you
can have 10 years of sudoc.info. If it takes an organization more than
2 or 3 hours of work to register an info: URI, then domain
registration is a better deal, as I see it.
2. <http://lccn.info/2002022641>
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