Resource Identifiers 
 Specifications 
 
-  IVOA Recommendation 
-  "IVOA Identifiers" v2.0 (MarkusDemleitner, Editor)
Development of this standard is tracked via the 
IVOA Documents landing page.
 Discussion 
Do we need this standard?
Any resource requires a standard subset of metadata to specify its identity, presumably an xml document fragment, eg:
<resourceIdentifier>
   <name>...</name>
   <resourceType>...</resourceType>
   <location>
      <url>...</url>
      ...
   </location>
</resourceIdentifier>
Should the identifier for a resource simply be a URI with the other stuff above being part of the 
ResourceMetadata? -- 
TonyLinde - 27 Jan 2003