Ross Singer writes:
> There should be no issue with having both, mainly because like I
> mentioned earlier, nobody cares about info:uris.
>
> Take, for instance, DOIs. What do you see in the wild? Do you ever
> see info:uris (except in OpenURLs)? If you don't see
> http://dx.doi.org/ URIs you generally see doi:10... URIs. It seems
> like having http and info URIs would *have* to be fine, since
> info:uris *not being dereferenceable* are far less useful (I won't go
> so far as 'useless') on the web, which is where all this is happening.
What on earth does dereferencing have to do with this?
We're talking about an identifier.
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Received on Mon Mar 30 2009 - 11:37:15 EDT