On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 14:28 +0100, Houghton,Andrew wrote: > The DOI is the identifier and it inherently doesn't > tie itself to any resolution mechanism. So creating an info URI > for it is meaningless, it's just another alias for the DOI. I > can create an HTTP resolution mechanism for DOI's by doing: > > http://resolve.example.org/?doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00728.x > http://resolve.example.org/?uri=info:doi/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00728.x Note that in the first you have to EXPLICITLY name the identifier encoding as doi=... Note also that this is your *resolution service* doing this, not the identifier. In the second example, the identifier is self-describing. It says I am a DOI (info:doi/) and my value is 10.111/bla-bla-bla. So, I disagree that the two are of identical value. The string doi does not identify itself outside of your resolution service, whereas the info URI doi does. Rob