Data Set Identifier Interoperability (DSII)
Responsible AD: Pete Resnick
BoF Chairs:  Beth Plale and Ted Hardie
Mail List: dsii@ietf.org

Description: 
 This BoF is not intended to form a working group at this session.  The discussion will focus on how to achieve interoperability among persistent identifiers for data sets made available on the Internet.  The initial use case of interest is scientific data sets produced by different research teams; other use cases might include media developed by different sources and combined into a common collection.   Access policies based on identifiers, discovery, association of meta-data, and data integrity are expected to be later topics, but these will likely be covered in follow-on mailing list discussion.The BoF will review existing methods such as DOI, URN, PURL, and then discuss core requirements. 

Background:

Many data providers in the research domain and in the domain of publishing have understood that it is important that each data object being created with the intention of being shared in some form (including versions and presentation variants) has an external unique identifier and associated with it typical information in order to establish its identity, integrity and authenticity at all time during its life cycle. There are multiple possible approaches for persistent identifiers that are differentiated by the operations performed on the identifier.  A simple example is a Globally Unique ID that provides identity, or a PURL that supports both identity and access, or a Ticket that supports identity, access, and access control, or a logical name that supports identity, access, access control, and arrangement.  The operations that are performed upon the persistent identifier name space must be defined.


Agenda:


	Setting Conceptual Framework  10 Minutes (Beth Plale)

	Conceptual model for thinking about identifier solutions and interoperability; 
	Name space, governance, integrity and authenticity, operations performed
	

	Curent Data set ID systems
		
	EZID 10 Minutes (John Kunze)
	
	Handle System 10 Minutes (Larry Lannom)
	
	EPIC 10 Minutes (Peter Wittenberg)
	
	Discussion of current systems 20 Minutes (Beth Plale)
	
	Discussion of Interoperability considerations 20 Minutes (Ted Hardie)
	
	Next steps  10 Minutes (Beth Plale)