[MOBY] Re: [MOBY-l] Name Space

[Martin Senger]

Just my 2c:
   The authority field is not important only as a way how to identify
things world-wide uniquely (if it was only for that, all your arguments
are completely valid) - but it *may* (the LSID spec does not mandate that 
but suggests it) be used also for finding an appropriate resolution
service that can return data identified by this LSID. Therefore, if you
put there pubmed.org, it may never find biomoby.org where it can be
resolve.
   I think the solution may be (Sean, are you listening here? Am I right?)
to have *both* in the authority - biomoby.org *and* pubmed.org - so the
resolution software will find first biomoby.org and it knows that the rest
of the authority can be ignored.

   Regards,
   Martin

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