[Discuss-DOI] Might be of interest: Paper and RFC

[tony_hammond@harcourt.com]

For those who haven't seen it, the paper "Anatomy of a URL" by Rohit Khare
in an article written for his column in IEEE Internet Computing might be of
some interest:

     http://www1.ics.uci.edu/~rohit/IEEE-L7-namespaces.html

And on the URI front, note that an RFC for "doi:" as a URI scheme was
posted recently to the IETF Internet-Drafts list - see below.

Tony




A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.


     Title     : Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for Digital
                 Object Identifiers (DOIs)
     Author(s) : N. Paskin et al.
     Filename  : draft-paskin-doi-uri-00.txt
     Pages     :
     Date      : 26-Feb-02

This document defines the 'doi' Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
scheme for Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). The DOI system was
developed by the International DOI Foundation (http://www.doi.org),
an open membership-based organization founded to develop a framework
of infrastructure, policies and procedures to support the identification
needs of providers of intellectual property. DOI identifiers are
persistent across time and unique across network space. The 'doi' URI
scheme allows a DOI to be referenced by a URI for Internet applications.

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