[topicmapmail] Re: Document Object Identifiers/CrossRef

[Daniel Rivers-Moore]

Speaking from the point of view of very partial knowledge, my
understanding is that, from the IDF's point of view, a URN would be one
kind of DOI. ISBN would be another.

I know that the intention of the IDF is that they provide not only a
standard for DOIs themselves, but also a standard resolution mechanism,
software that implements that mechanism, and actual on-the-ground
resolution -service providers. As I said in my earlier post, it is not
clear to me how far they are down the road of achieving all that in
practice, but the project is certainly far-reaching and ambitious.

Out of curiosity back to you, Tony, does IETF's DDDS URN-URL resolution
simply define a way of doing the resolution in principle, or are there
also working software and installed service providers?

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony B. Coates [mailto:abcoates@TheOffice.net]
Sent: 06 September 2002 14:57
To: topicmapmail
Subject: [topicmapmail] Re: Document Object Identifiers/CrossRef


Out of curiosity, does the DOI initiative deliver more than the IETF's
DDDS
(URN -> URL resolution) would, when applied to "urn:publicId:..." URNs?

	Cheers,
		Tony.
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Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect
mailto:abcoates@TheOffice.net
MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language)
http://www.mddl.org/
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