There seem to be a number of strong viewpoints, expectations for social compliance as well as institutional commitment, and disagreements on the best suited technical avenues that I'm wondering whether this wouldn't be the stuff out of which a position paper could be distilled for e-Biosphere, with the aim of publishing it as a community paper in a journal later.
Maybe something along the lines of something like Hilse & Kothe, Implementing Persistent Identifiers (http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/publ/pdf/2732.pdf ) but focused on a comparison between a few alternatives for biodiversity informatics and their implementation and institutional consequences?
Maybe that would help to better move the community forward in between those discussions?
Or is someone writing that already?
-hilmar