[DDI-SRG] DDI Agency pre-registration

[Wendy Thomas]

Pascal,

this sounds like a good move. I'll put it on the agenda for discussion on 
Thursday. I don't think pre-assigning ID's to alliance members is a good 
idea. You don't know if the membership is a full organization or really 
only a segment of an organization. However, a message to each member with 
a suggested ID that they could simply approve might be in order...if this 
is doable. Something that speeds the process for them without dictating to 
them what their ID is.

Wendy


On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Pascal Heus wrote:

> All:
> I've been working with Mary and Arofan on proposal for the
> implementation of a public registry for DDI agency identifiers. This is
> actually not trivial and presents both technical and organizational
> challenges. Since this need to be further reviewed and will take some
> time to be implemented, we have decided to setup a web page for the
> pre-registration of Agency identifiers at
> http://tools.ddialliance.org/?lvl1=community&lvl2=agencyid
>
> The rationale behind it is that there are organizations and individuals
> that are producing DDI 3 today and they shouldn't have to wait to get an
> official ID for their agency. The proposed scheme is based on format
> similar to domain names but that do not change across time. the
> structure is:
> [organization].[country].ddi
> - The [organization] part is typically the abbreviation of the agency
> - The [country] is the 2-letter country code or .org/.int for
> international organizations (.com is not allowed).
> - The .ddi identifies this as an ID in the DDI registry to prevent
> conflict with other registries or classifications.
> Few example: icpsr.us.ddi, odaf.org.ddi, ukda.uk.ddi
> More details on the format/rules are in the web page.
>
> There is at this point no formal process associated with the attribution
> of IDs (basically at our discretion at this time) and we cannot
> guarantee 100% that the format will remain the same (but will likely
> be). We feel however that it is urgent to move forward on this and would
> rather provide a simple mechanism rather than wait and have
> organizations make up their own IDs.
>
> Could we add this as a topic for this week CC (that unfortunately I
> can't join, but can talk later in the day) with the idea that, unless
> there are strong objections, we move forward with this. We will then
> include a short blurb in the upcoming DDI newsletter (next week) and
> post announcements on various mailing lists. Suggestion/contributions
> most welcomed. Should we pre-assign ID's to members of the Alliance?
>
> thanks
> Pascal
>
>
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