PubDIDs (and DIDs in general, maybe)

[Patrick Dowler]

This was just pointing out that the vospace uri scheme is specifically 
to have globally unique resolvable identifiers. In the details, the vos 
scheme defines the resolution rule so that it does not clobber query 
strings or fragments or other such things that the vospace spec may 
define or a specific vospace service may want to implement.  The vos 
scheme splits between the authority and the path. That is a compelling 
feature of the design.

One can get globally-unique easily enough; resolvable requires some 
rules, and no-clobbering restricts the rules.

Pat

On 03/02/14 04:44 AM, Markus Demleitner wrote:
>> vos://cadc.nrc.ca!vospace/myProject/myFile
> [...]
>> >More fuel for the fire maybe:-)
> I'm not sure I understand what this is suggesting.  Is this about an
> alternative to the resolution rule suggested in the original mail?
>
> Here's how I had imagined PubDID resolution:
>
> (a) split the DID at the first ?
> (b) resolve the first part of this in a Registry
> (c) do $SOMETHING with the registry record to obtain a service endpoint
> (d) feed the id to that service endpoint $SOMEHOW
> (e) analyze away.
>
> Of course, SOMETHING needs specification (and SOMEHOW, too, unless
> SOMETHING is just "get a datalink capability"), but is that otherwise
> contentious?

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