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[The Big Glee Bopper]

On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, Jon Knight wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Jan 1996, The Big Glee Bopper wrote:
> > Only change is nickel -> silver, but if everyone who is interested in 
> > ThomsImportantDoc is using http://www.indiana.edu/lurl/ThomsImportantDoc
> > then there are no changes outside.
> 
> I hate to be a spoil-sport, but lots of sites have been doing this sort 
> of thing for ages using DNS CNAMEs. 

> Personally, I don't thing persistance is going to be achieved easily 
> without electronic holding libraries.  Even URCs/URNs don't _guarantee_ 
> persistance.

I thought that was what I said. Each network would have it's on holding 
library. For example at www.indiana.edu the holding library would be the
IU library. The _persistence_ needs to be distributed and not just at 
OCLC or LC.

--Thom