Hi folks. It's me again.

Also during my reading of the GUID technologies specs, I identified some controversial issues that I would like to introduce to the list for discussion. Here goes the first one.

In the DOI handbook, the authors argue that DNS shouldn't be used as a general name resolution system. Their arguments are the following:

* DNS would not scale to support a large number of digital objects as required in a GUID framework (did they mean to use one domain name as an identifier for every object?!?!?) * Names included in identifiers might be implicated in trademark disputes. * DNS administration model is not suitable for a general purpose name system, i.e., only network administrators can manage DNS records. * Change in ownership of domain names can prevent authorities from resolving identifiers. * That reduces semantic opacity of identifiers

LSID technology uses DNS for resolution discovery. My questions are: Is LSID affected by any of those issues? How can we work around them? If the response includes using the alternate discovery method which is part of the LSID specification (NAPTR), is that operational? If not, what would it take to make it work?

Regards,

Ricardo

PS. If you are a LSID enthusiast and got mad at me for spilling the beans on it, don't worry, I have some good ones about DOI and Handle in my bag ;)