- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:14:27 -0400
- To: "John A. Kunze" <jak@ucop.edu>
- Cc: uri@w3c.org
John A. Kunze scripsit: > On the other hand, the name authorities for which "info:" is intended > -- Library of Congress, NASA Bibcodes, OAI identifiers, etc. -- will > certainly provide among the highest levels of persistence that the > identifier world will know, based on the seriousness of their missions > and established reputations. The identifier "Roma" has been persistently applied to the same city for the last 2,756 years without any formal registration whatsoever. The above-mentioned organizations will do well to reach 10% of that lifetime. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Original line from _The Warrior's Apprentice_ by Lois McMaster Bujold: "Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one." English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."
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