Hi,

I want to bring to your attention the "info" URI scheme that I came across today. This URI is intended to be used for non-dereferenceable identifiers. I wrote up a wiki page giving some details:

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

Here's a couple of example "info" URIs:

info:lccn/2002022641 info:doi/10.1000.10/123456

Personally I feel that the total separation from any dereferencing scheme is a liability, but the authors of the info scheme feel that it is a strength. Just thought I would throw it into the mix for reference purposes. Interesting reading at a minimum.

Matt

PS Donald and Ricardo -- I couldn't add a link to the front page of the wiki as I seem to no longer have write access there. Maybe you could?

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