Adam Bosworth has some good advice for would-be standards developers in the form of a 7 item list. It is strangely reassuring to know that someone in the US Federal Government called someone like Adam for advice about standards…even if it was at some inhuman hour. Number 5 really resonated with me:
Always have real implementations [...]
Recently there’s been a few discussions about persistent identifiers on the web: in particular one about the persistence of XRIs, and another about the use of HTTP URIs in semantic web applications like dbpedia.
As you probably know already, the w3c publicly recommended against the use of Extensible Resource Identifiers (XRI). The net effect of [...]
One little bit of goodness that has percolated out from my group at $work in collaboration with the California Digital Library is the BagIt spec (more readable version). BagIt is an IETF RFC for bundling up files for transfer over the network, or for shipping on physical media. Just yesterday a little article about BagIt [...]
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