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I've got nothing against putting http uris in OpenURLs myself. I don't 
understand the objection to that, really.

Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the point of all this to be able to put 
> the URI in an OpenURL?   And info was invented (in part) to avoid putting 
> http URIs in OpenURLs  (because they are complicated enough already, why 
> clutter them further).  So I don't see that pursuing an http solution to 
> this is very useful.   --Ray
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Houghton,Andrew" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?
>
>
>   
>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>>> Jonathan Rochkind
>>> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:18 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?
>>>
>>> I am not interested in maintaining a sudoc.info registration, and
>>> neither is my institution, who I wouldn't trust to maintain it (even to
>>> the extent of not letting the DNS registration expire) after I left.
>>>       
>> BTW, you could always use http://purl.org/ and later if you wanted
>> to have it resolve to something just change the PURL. 
>>