[ga] Re: PUID

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you stephanie. Still beyond my limited technical understanding, but I
actually did get the general idea from your explanation. Thank you.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>
To: "kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: PUID


> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:55:57PM -0500,
>  kidsearch <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>  a message of 36 lines which said:
>
> > Can someone translate this to english for me.
>
> Of course, since I am French, I can be wrong, but the original
> document seems to be in Shakespeare's and Ballmer's language.
>
> > http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/4228
>
> It describes an unique identifier for the *format* of a document (not
> for the document itself, like DOI or URI could do). It gives no detail
> and does not indicate why existing systems like MIME type
> (http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html) are
> insufficient.
>
> The registry
>
(http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/PUID/proPUIDSearch.asp?status=new
)
> seems extremely poor. Very common formats like Atom (RFC 4287) or RSS
> or C source files or Relax NG compact syntax are missing (while
> they have a MIME type).