- From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:47:20 +0000
- To: "Shane McCarron" <shane@aptest.com>
- Cc: "Pemanent Identifier CG" <public-perma-id@w3.org>
Shane, hello.
On 1 Mar 2016, at 15:25, Shane McCarron wrote:
> Umm... I think A == B, in that if somehow the purl.org DNS points to
> w3id.org it will just work.
That would be possibility (b). Goal (a) would be creating a w3id.org
redirect corresponding to each purl.org redirect, and then abandoning
the purl.org domain, or parking it ('nothing to see here'). I hope
no-one's suggesting that, but it would be good to explicitly rule it out
as a non-goal.
> But I don't remember anyone offering us that
> domain.
My _impression_ was that OCLC was willing to pass on the purl.org
domain, as well as the database contents, to a suitably constituted
successor. I got that impression because I believe the widely assumed
goal is at least (b), and that wouldn't be possible without a bequest of
the domain.
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Can I just check what the goal is, here?
>>
>> Is it:
>>
>> (a) Create a w3id.org redirect for each/most purl.org redirect and
>> abandon the purl.org ones in whole or in part?
>>
>> (b) Support purl.org as a domain -- ie, support all/most existing
>> http://purl.org/.../blah redirects -- even if it's implemented by a
>> similar mechanism to w3id.org?
>>
>> (c) Work towards a mechanism for creating new purl.org redirects by
>> whatever means?
All the best,
Norman
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SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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