Information

LinkID – Toward a Persistent Identifier Standard for Hyperlinks
  • Past
  • Confirmed
  • Breakout Sessions

Meeting

Event details

Date:
– Japan Standard Time
Status:
Confirmed
Location:
Floor 3 - 303
Participants:
Sam Goto, Toshiaki Koike, Christian Nyffenegger, Piotr Sowiński, Jason Ung
Big meeting:
TPAC 2025 (Calendar)

Broken links threaten the long-term integrity and trustworthiness of the Web.
The Link Genetic initiative introduces “LinkID”, a persistent, bidirectional identifier scheme designed to ensure link resilience, metadata preservation, and semantic interoperability across domains and over time.

This session invites W3C members to discuss the feasibility of a new linkid: URI scheme, alignment with existing identifier systems (DOI, ARK, UUID), and next steps toward standardisation.

We plan to:

  • Identify potential Working Groups or Community Groups interested in hosting a LinkID proposal.
  • Discuss governance, persistence, and interoperability models for resilient linking.
  • Outline a roadmap for open-source reference implementation and metadata framework.

Chair:

  • Christian Nyffenegger (remote)
    In-room support:
  • Gabriela Tazima (onsite, handling room device + Zoom)

Materials:

Goals:

  • Introduce LinkID as a general-purpose persistent identifier for hyperlinks.
  • Present architecture, components, privacy & interoperability model.
  • Validate the need for a W3C Community Group.
  • Collect feedback from browser vendors, archives, PID ecosystem and W3C participants.

Agenda

Chairs:
Christian Nyffenegger

Description:
Broken links threaten the long-term integrity and trustworthiness of the Web.
The Link Genetic initiative introduces “LinkID”, a persistent, bidirectional identifier scheme designed to ensure link resilience, metadata preservation, and semantic interoperability across domains and over time.

This session invites W3C members to discuss the feasibility of a new linkid: URI scheme, alignment with existing identifier systems (DOI, ARK, UUID), and next steps toward standardisation.

We plan to:

  • Identify potential Working Groups or Community Groups interested in hosting a LinkID proposal.
  • Discuss governance, persistence, and interoperability models for resilient linking.
  • Outline a roadmap for open-source reference implementation and metadata framework.

Chair:

  • Christian Nyffenegger (remote)
    In-room support:
  • Gabriela Tazima (onsite, handling room device + Zoom)

Materials:

Goals:

  • Introduce LinkID as a general-purpose persistent identifier for hyperlinks.
  • Present architecture, components, privacy & interoperability model.
  • Validate the need for a W3C Community Group.
  • Collect feedback from browser vendors, archives, PID ecosystem and W3C participants.

Goal(s):
Discuss LinkID; see list of detailed goals above.

Agenda:

  • Welcome & logistics (remote chair + in-room support)
  • Link decay problem (motivation)
  • Challenges of link fragility
  • What is LinkID
  • Architecture components
  • Security & privacy
  • Interoperability with DOI/ARK/UUID/archives
  • Why W3C & standardization path
  • Open discussion
  • Next steps & follow-up channels

Materials:

Export options

Personal Links

Please log in to export this event with all the information you have access to.

Public Links

The following links do not contain any sensitive information and can be shared publicly.

Feedback

Report feedback and issues on GitHub.