Re: [dsii] Potential IETF Work Items

Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> Wed, 15 August 2012 00:47 UTC

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I wasn't at the BOF, but that won't stop me from chiming in :-)

I'm personally skeptical of digital library inspired efforts to create
identifier schemes and protocols that ultimately try to compete with
the URI, HTTP and DNS--work that has largely gone on here at the IETF
I might add. I find statements like the following to be a bit of a red
flag:

    Should the IETF specify conventions for paths of
    PIDs for data objects?  These might include location
    metadata, access policy, authentication methods,
    authentication credential, and so on.

The URL and HTTP already provide much of this. I think efforts like
the DSII should promote the use of existing standards that have made
the Web such a successful publishing platform. The degree to which
DSII goes it alone is the degree to which it will fizzle out, and go
unnoticed.

//Ed