Thanks, Julian!

As I stew over this stuff, I am ever so gradually warming back up to LSID, even with their (apparent) handicaps. At least for "owned" data (specimens, etc.). I'd still like to know what happens (in terms of LSIDs) when one museum gives a specimen to another museum. This sort of think happens very routinely. Less routine, but by no means unheard of, are cases where an entire collection is transferred from one institution to another. I'm still trying to contemplate the implications for "public domain" data (Reference citations, Taxon Names, published Taxon Concepts, etc.), and it still gives me gastric Lepidopterans.

observer (somewhere between Richard Pyle and his aquarium fish in terms of understanding)

Ha! Nope -- I think you're somewhere in the much broader gap; between me and Bill Gates.

Aloha, Rich