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This is one of four documents contributed as background to the ongoing
debate on abstract identifiers, by the PILIN project
http://www.pilin.net.au . It is a draft that will be published later this
year on the PILIN 2 website. The documents reflect PILIN's orientation
towards persistent identification, and may not match XRI's concerns; but
they may be useful in giving another perspective on the debate.

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"Using URIs as Persistent Identifiers" (informally, "Why Not URIs?") gives
background on the progress towards defining HTTP URIs as abstract
identifiers, and sets out what additional policy and technical
infrastructure is required to make a HTTP URI a persistent identifier. It
can be summarised as "you can --- as long as you don't treat it as a URL."
But it also acknowledges the current universality of HTTP as a protocol.


 -- Nick Nicholas

The document named PILIN WhyNotUrls_v1-1.doc has been submitted by Nick
Nicholas to the OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) TC document
repository.

Document Description:
Document from PILIN project on what additional policy and technical
infrastructure is required to make a HTTP URI a persistent identifier.

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http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/xri/document.php?document_id=29427

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