Roger, I think we should start think how to improve the situation. In my opinion the situation could significantly improved if there would be some audit method, thus certificate for trustworthy GUIDs. There are several initiatives working on audit methods for long term archives why not adopting such a procedure for LSID authorities? I have posted some ideas in my blog here: http://stratigraphynet.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-trust-persitence-of-guids... best regards, Robert 2009/4/23 Roger Hyam <rogerhyam@mac.com>:
For those of you who can take any more of it I have posted my thoughts on persistence of GUIDs to my blog.
http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/346
If you don't have the time or patience to read it the summary is:
GUID Persistence == diddly squat
Your comments are welcome.
All the best,
Roger
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