LYNX-DEV New technology to track

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

A new technology that you might want to watch is called
the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) work.  Current
DOI Prototype participants include Academic Press, Springer-Verlag, Wiley, and
others.   See <URL: http://www.doi.org/ > .  The idea is centered around
folk registering documents (or portions of documents) with a central
authority and being assigned a doi.  Then the doi is published rather than
the URL.  Browsers use the DOI, which goes to a central server which
then redirects one to the current location for the document.  The indirection
allows one to be directed into a publisher's charging scheme, etc.

I don't suspect that changes to lynx will be necessary for this mechanism,
but we should be sure to track the work to ensure if it catches on we
take full advantage.
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