More info here too:
http://www.handle.net/introduction.html
This handle stuff is interesting, but I don't entirely understand it.
I guess if the Global Handle Service really went down, it would be
similar to a root-level DNS server going down -- you'd be in trouble,
somewhat mitigated by whatever data your local resolver had cached.
Of course, CNRI maintains several failover mirrors of the Global Handle
Service for that reason. (Much as we'd hope all the root-level DNS
servers are thorougly failover-ed).
Jonathan
Ben O'Steen wrote:
What happens if the main doi resolver goes down? I'd be interested to see
how well a local resolver works when blocked from this upstream server. Are
there any other upstream servers?
Ben
On Nov 23, 2009 10:10 PM, "Tom Keays" <[email protected]> wrote:
Interesting stuff. I never really thought about it before that DOIs
can be served up by the Handle server. E.G.,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M004545200 <=>
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1074/jbc.M004545200
But, even more surprising to me was realizing that Handles can be
resolved by the DOI server. Or presumably any DOI server.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/46087 <=> http://dx.doi.org/2027.42/46087
I suppose I should have understood this point since the Handle service
does sort of obliquely say this.
http://www.handle.net/factsheet.html
Anyway, good to have it made explicit.
Tom
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[email protected]> wrote:
The actual "handle" ...
