Re: [ESDS] Proposed Charter - 2nd update

[Olivier DUBUISSON <[e-mail]>]

Dear all,

Mark Harrison wrote:
[...]
> 
> As you point out, it is essential that a protocol for Discovery Services 
> should be agnostic about the identification technology and should be 
> able to support multiple families of identifiers.  Regarding the latter 
> point, it is important to avoid collisions between syntactically 
> identical identifiers from different identifier families.  To qualify 
> the context or namespace of each identifier, we can construct a URI, in 
> which each namespace has a distinct URI prefix.  There have already been 
> a few helpful postings on this ESDS list about that topic.

Recommendation ITU-T X.668 | ISO/IEC 9834-9 is a solution to the issue 
of qualifying the namespace of each identifier.

See 
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog/New+Standard+Unifies+ID+Schemes+For+Tagbased+Applications.aspx
for some info.

ITU-T X.668 is an approved standard but it is not (freely) available 
yet. I am sure there will be a way to provide this group with a copy 
once the ESDS working group is officially launched.

Since an IRI notation for OIDs is being standardized, you have the URI 
that Mark's was pointing out in his email.
-- 
Olivier DUBUISSON
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