SICI Overview SICI introductory material from The Faxon Company. Standards include a system for the identification of products, services, utilities, transport units and locations. These numbers are represented by bar codes. A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services Robert Kahn and Robert Wilensky, May 13, 1995. This document describes fundamental aspects of an infrastructure that is open in its architecture and which supports a large and extensible class of distributed digital information services.
Digital libraries are one example of such services.
The new urn-ietf discussion list, set up following the second BOF session on URNs at the Montreal IETF meeting, June 27, 1996. Douglas Armati, STM Newsletter 95, November 1994, paper delivered Informal Part 26th STM General Assembly meeting, Frankfurt, October 1994. Information Identification Douglas Armati, report to the STM International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers Task Force on Information Identifiers and Metering Systems in the Electronic Environment, March 1995. A PURL is a Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. However, instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution service.