LSID wars

Well, the LSID discussion has just exploded in the last few weeks. I touched on this in my earlier post Rethinking LSIDs versus HTTP URI, but since then the TDWG discussion has become more vigourous (albeit mainly focussed on technical issues, although I suspect that these are symptoms of a larger problem), while public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org list for July has mushroomed into a near slugfest of discussion about URIs, LSIDs, OWL, the goals of the Semantic Web, etc. There are also blog posts, such as Benjamin Good's The main problem with LSIDs, Mark Wilkinson's numerous posts on his blog, and Pierre Lindebaum's commentary.

I have no comment to make on this, I'm merely bookmarking them for when I find the time to wade through all this...