I have briefly updated the Wiki for the IndexFungorum LSID prototype at

http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=LSIDResolverForTaxonNamesIF

As I was filling in the specs, it made me think it would be good to have a "suggested" list of LSID namespaces that different LSID authorities could use if suitable. At present the IndexFungorum namespace is "Names" - which may not be ideal. This will differ however for central LSID authorities and distributed authorities. Eg if a central authority "guid.org" is setup the namespace "indexfungorum/names" may be suitable for taxon name objects [a link to a glossary would be helpful here to explain what I mean by a name object], but for the distributed authority "indexfungorum.org" then just "names" may do the job.

Another alternative is to put the "distributed" authority in the authority name, eg "indexfungorum.guid.org" leaving it up to DNS to locate the authority, then leave the namespace simple, in this example "names", eg "urn:lsid:indexfungorum.guid.org:names:123456".

Any thoughts?

Kevin

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