{"id":7,"date":"2013-02-16T00:57:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T00:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/?p=7"},"modified":"2013-02-17T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:46:50","slug":"launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/2013\/02\/16\/launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Identifiers for the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this community is to setup and maintain a secure, permanent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/URL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">URL<\/a>\u00a0re-direction service for the Web. This service, located at <a href=\"https:\/\/w3id.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">w3id.org<\/a>, is run exclusively by members of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/\">W3C Permanent Identifier Community Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Web applications that deal with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linked_data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Linked Data<\/a>\u00a0often need to specify and use\u00a0URLs that are very stable. They utilize services such as the one run by this community to ensure\u00a0that applications using their URLs will always be re-directed to a working\u00a0website. The concept operates much like a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telephone_switchboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">switchboard<\/a>,\u00a0connecting requests for\u00a0information with the true location of the information on the Web.\u00a0Entries in the switchboard can be reconfigured to point to a new location if the\u00a0old location stops working.<\/p>\n<p>There are a growing group of companies that have pledged responsibility\u00a0to ensure the operation of this community-driven service. These companies are:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalbazaar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Digital Bazaar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/3roundstones.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">3 Round Stones<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openlinksw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">OpenLink Software<\/a>,\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aptest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Applied Testing and Technology<\/a>. They are responsible for all administrative\u00a0tasks associated with operating the service. The social contract between\u00a0these companies gives each of them full access to all information required\u00a0to maintain and operate the website. The agreement is setup such that\u00a0a number of these companies could fail, lose interest, or become unresponsive\u00a0for long periods of time without negatively affecting the operation of the\u00a0site.<\/p>\n<p>The service operates in HTTPS-only mode to ensure end-to-end security. This\u00a0means that it may be used for Linked Data applications that require high\u00a0levels of security such as those found in the financial, medical, and\u00a0public infrastructure sectors.<\/p>\n<p>All identifiers associated with the service are intended to be around\u00a0for as long as the Web is around. This means decades, if not centuries.\u00a0If the final destination for popular identifiers used by this service fail\u00a0in such a way as to be a major inconvenience or danger to the Web, the\u00a0community will mirror the information for the popular identifier and setup a working redirect to restore service to the rest of the Web.<\/p>\n<p>You may join this community by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/accounts\/request\">getting a W3C account<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/join\">clicking the join button<\/a>. If you wish to engage the community in discussion about this service for\u00a0your Web application, please send an e-mail to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/public-perma-id\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">public-perma-id@w3.org mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this community is to setup and maintain a secure, permanent\u00a0URL\u00a0re-direction service for the Web. This service, located at w3id.org, is run exclusively by members of the\u00a0W3C Permanent Identifier Community Group. Web applications that deal with\u00a0Linked Data\u00a0often need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/2013\/02\/16\/launch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/perma-id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}