On 7/17/15 7:13 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 06:17:54PM +0000, > Edward Lewis <[email protected]> wrote > a message of 148 lines which said: > >> URLs are nice for giving a reference, but there's still a need to curate >> the data. In particular, what if the torproject.org name registration >> expires and is bought by someone else? > > Nothing human is forever. What if the private organisation issuing > DOIs collapse? What will happen of all the DOIs bought on the > marketing-created assumption that it was stable?
good references are nice, but by their nature are largely outside of our control. the best we can do in general is curate them. if you read rfc 20, good luck trying to find a copy of USAS X3, 4-1968 > Or we should use only identifiers issued by organisations older than > three centuries, on the assumption that they have demonstrated > stability. A good example is ARKs (draft-kunze-ark) issued by the > French National Library (prefix 12148), which was established in 1537 > AD meaning it is probably here to stay. > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop >
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