Folks, I wanted to let you know about a discussion regarding the use of PURLs as GUIDs that is happening at the TDWG Technical Architecture Group (TAG) mailing list. I am sending you this message because I believe that the GUID wiki and mailing list is the most appropriate forum to discuss the issue. The thread starts here: http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-tag_lists.tdwg.org/2006-May/000135.html I have also moved the the original pages posted by Gregor Hagedorn on the TAG wiki to the GUID wiki. Links are below: http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=WhyWeShouldNotUseLSIDs http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=UsePURLsAsGUIDs Feel free to contribute to the discussion. Best regards, Ricardo