--- On Tue, 8/23/11, Patrick Durusau <patr...@durusau.net> wrote:
"The fact remains that even if we switched (miraculously) today to all new URI identifiers, we will be accessing literature using prior identifiers for a very long time. I suspect hundreds of years." Somewhere around 1890, I think, the amount of published scientific literature exceeded the ability of a person to read it all in a lifetime. Selectivity has been the rule for over 100 years. So the answer is not "hundreds of years" it's forever. --Gannon
