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I definitely see your point. But I can't count on my _organization_ to maintain any of this stuff _at all_ after I leave. My organization is not in that business. I suppose I could lay down the money for 100 years of a hostname registration myself right now, as a donation to the community, and call it a day, and leave it to someone else to figure out in 100 years. :) Jonathan Erik Hetzner wrote: > At Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:18:24 -0400, > Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > >> 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. I >> think even something as simple as this really needs to be committed to >> by an organization. So yeah, even "willing to take on the >> responsibility of owning that domain until such time as something useful >> can be done with it," I do not have, and to me that seems like a >> requirement, not just a nice to have. >> > > I see your point. I believe that registering a domain would be less > work than going through an info URI registration process, but I don’t > know how difficult the info URI registration process would be (thus > bringing the conversation full circle). [1] > > >> But it certainly is another option. I feel like most people have the >> _expectation_ of http resolvability for http URIs though, even >> though it isn't actually required. If you want there to be an actual >> http server there at ALL, even one that just responds to all >> requests with a link to the SuDoc documentation, that's another >> thing you need. >> > > I think there is a strong expectation that if I resolve a URI, I do > not end up with a domain squatter. Otherwise I am not so sure what is > expected when using an HTTP URI whose primary purpose is > identification, not dereferencing. Personally I would be happy to get > either a page telling me to check back later [2], or nothing at all. > > best, > Erik Hetzner > > 1. My last word on this. Because I am already beating a dead horse, I > have put it in a footnote. For $100 and basically no time at all you > can have 10 years of sudoc.info. If it takes an organization more than > 2 or 3 hours of work to register an info: URI, then domain > registration is a better deal, as I see it. > > 2. <http://lccn.info/2002022641> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ;; Erik Hetzner, California Digital Library > ;; gnupg key id: 1024D/01DB07E3 >