Hey, Lindsay and Strathmore apparently aren't on board with the whole climate change thing. In a couple more years they will be regularly flooded and won't need an Irrigation District nor, hence, a URI for one. But I agree with what you said. Bob On Nov 30, 2007 12:18 PM, Chuck Miller <Chuck.Miller@mobot.org> wrote:
How to turn LSIDs into a clickable link guaranteed to work forever?
Rich's vision: http://<some proxy server>.org/?urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1234
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Is there an existing international body that could operate a forever functioning LSID proxy (say like, proxy.lsid.org--which unfortunately is already lost to Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District)?
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