- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:57:45 +0100
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org, sjmm@us.ibm.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Before we resume normal service in the form of lots of pointed questions and obscure RFC references (:-), I'd like to follow up on Noah's posting at the meta level, as it were. Contrary to what you might think, the TAG is not engaged in playing Good cop (NM)--Bad cop (HST) with LSIDs. In particular, my goal is definitely _not_ to say, at the end of some branch or another of our ongoing exchange, "Aha! So you admit that http would have been better, and accordingly will change/abandon the LSID spec. forthwith." Speaking personally, at least, and I think for the rest of the TAG, we're not engaged in an effort to trash the LSID design, or get it withdrawn, or anything like that. That train has definitively left the station. What I _am_ trying to do is understand the requirements behind the LSID design as clearly as possible, so that I can then make the URNsAndRegistries-50 finding as useful as possible, by identifying exactly how http does/does not address those requirements. Then when the next group with requirements similar to the Life Science community's comes along, they can see more clearly what exactly the tradeoffs are and make a well-informed decision. I'm very grateful to Sean for engaging in what you might think of as a Socratic dialogue in which we each learn more about the other's requirements and expectations and about the capabilities of various technologies. ht - -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEx2bJkjnJixAXWBoRAsWnAJ4gBQzqt3p4agNPpMfCk9mo1PzMSgCeNvhu lS7AEJXVdSSBdQN1aiD1UMQ= =aNEd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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