Re: FYI, AAP DEVELOPS DIGITAL I.D. SYSTEM FOR PUBLICATIONS
Archie (warnock@home.com)
Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:01:39 -0500
Message-ID: <088f01bd430a$7f077110$f1140318@aw3.hwrd1.md.home.com>
From: "Archie" <warnock@home.com>
To: "John C. Mallery" <jcma@ai.mit.edu>
Cc: <urn-ietf@Bunyip.Com>, <uri@Bunyip.Com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:01:39 -0500
Subject: Re: FYI, AAP DEVELOPS DIGITAL I.D. SYSTEM FOR PUBLICATIONS
>AAP DEVELOPS DIGITAL I.D. SYSTEM FOR PUBLICATIONS
>The Association of American Publishers, in conjunction with the Corporation
>for National Research Initiatives, has developed an electronic
>identification system for materials on the Internet. The digital object
Very interesting. From checking out the site at doi.org, it appears they're
using the Handle system. A friend of mine and I were speculating on what
happens when there are something like 10**14 documents registered. Doesn't
it seem like a hierarchical system would do the job more efficiently here?
Or is there such an architecture now behind the handles?
Archie
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