- From: Norman Paskin <n.paskin@tertius.ltd.uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:53:14 +0100
- To: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>, "'David Booth'" <david@dbooth.org>
- Cc: <n.paskin@doi.org>, "'www-tag'" <www-tag@w3.org>
It seems I was premature in my last mail - I received the full e mail with DB's suggestion (for some reason I didn't receieve the first one from DB as far as I can see). Our fact sheet tries to be brief, and to address a number of issues, both the URI/URN historic confusion but also the relationship to other (non web) identifiers (eg ISBN) which are important to our community, such as identifiers of non-digital abstractions. We've tried to represent the understanding to those who are not close to IETF/W3C activities but are users of identifiers, e.g. publishers, librarians, consumers. We've found that those communities do indeed use the terms URL and URN (far more so than URI) and we still encounter a number of questions about eg URN resolvers in libraries. That was the primary focus of our factsheet for our members. We are not attempting to represent the full detail of the techical specifications, but would like to cite the consensus and certainly try to avoid any misprepresentations. We could certainly improve the factsheet to reference the RFC 3986 position, and would welome your suggestions for doing so. Dr. Norman Paskin Managing Agent International DOI Foundation Tel: (+44) 1865 559070 Mobile: (+44) 7710 327569 skype: npaskin www.tertius.ltd.uk www.linkedin.com/in/normanpaskin -----Original Message----- From: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com [mailto:noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com] Sent: 15 July 2009 23:46 To: David Booth Cc: n.paskin@doi.org; www-tag Subject: Re: DOI "fact sheet" David Booth writes: > The current URI specification, RFC 3986 > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt > in section 1.1.3 clearly explains the relationship. > > It would be good to get the DOI "fact sheet" updated to properly reflect > this. Anyone on the TAG want to step up to take this on? Thanks. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 -------------------------------------- David Booth <david@dbooth.org> Sent by: www-tag-request@w3.org 07/13/2009 05:59 PM To: n.paskin@doi.org cc: www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>, (bcc: Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM) Subject: DOI "fact sheet" Dr. Paskin, As noted here http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Jul/0093.html I find the "fact sheet" on the doi.org web site at http://www.doi.org/factsheets/DOIIdentifierSpecs.html currently somewhat misleading. I realize that there was confusion about URIs, URNs and URLs back around 2000 or 2002 when some of the earlier discussions took place, but this confusion has since been worked out. The current URI specification, RFC 3986 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt in section 1.1.3 clearly explains the relationship. It would be good to get the DOI "fact sheet" updated to properly reflect this. Thanks -- David Booth, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic (contractor) Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Cleveland Clinic.
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