Two quick comments.

1. LSIDs do support security, albeit not with much sophistication. I've not played with this feature, but the source code examples clearly support username and password authentication.

2. There have been some attempts to use LDAP to resolve LSIDs (http://lifecde.com/products/lsid/lsid_resolver_spec.html). All attempts I've made to contact the author of this work have failed.

The code for this was in SourceForge at http://lsid.sourceforge.net, but IBM took over that URL. However, I have a copy of the code, and I've just discovered it's been archived at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lsid-orig/lsid/ as well.

I've virtually no understanding of how LDAP works, nor whether this is useful, but it seemed to get some attention for a while (http://gmod.sourceforge.net/gds/gds_desc.shtml).

Regards

Rod

On 21 Dec 2005, at 03:05, Ricardo Scachetti Pereira wrote:

Hi folks,

Over the last few days I re-read the specifications of some candidate GUID technologies to be used by GBIF and TDWG. As a result, I've upgraded the technology comparison in the GUID wiki. The direct URL is http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=TechnologyComparison. Please feel free to make comments and corrections.

Cheers,

Ricardo

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