OK, the message I'm getting is that:
1. It's perfectly acceptable for the public face of a major biodiversity informatics project to be broken in a way that makes us look amateurish.
2. TDWG must guarantee universal analysis at all times (even thought China may, on a whim, ban access to any site it choses).
3. That TDWG is already using Google Code for Darwin Core (http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/ ) is, of course, irrelevant to this discussion, as is the fact that Google Code seems fine for GBIF (http://code.google.com/p/gbif-ecat/ ) and EOL (http://code.google.com/p/eol-website/ ) projects.
4. Nobody thought these issues were important when the original project was set up on SourceForge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge ).
5. That Greg Whitbread's puns are appalling.
I'm clearly too worked up about this, but all I'm looking for is a simple fix to a simple problem. Instead, we're off on some tangent about incorporation, instead of actually dealing with the issue at hand. Perhaps I shouldn't get too bothered, and take this discussion as tacit agreement that LSIDs are doomed anyway.
Regards
Rod
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