- From: Carole Goble <carole@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:35:02 +0100
- To: Sean Martin <sjmm@us.ibm.com>
- CC: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
Sean > My feeling is that this suggestion is far more likely to succeed than > the second one. The reason for this is that there is no real "center" > to the Life Sciences (there are actually many and they don't always > get on!) - and consequently there might be significant difficulty in > establishing and managing the directory of authorities it would require. > There would also likely be resistance by those who don't want to be > bothered by any kind of red tape. The existing scheme was chosen in > part because it allowed any data provider to establish themselves as > an LSID authority for their data simply by creating a single SRV > record in their domain server and piggy backing on that. No central > registration required, cost of entry free using the domain name you > already have. This is a significant point and should not be underestimated. We need to work in the real world. Carole
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