<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="2">Dear All,<BR>
inclusion of the GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) issue in ZooBank seems to be of high importance from the point of view of the eScience community, but there seems to be considerable need for further promotion of the idea in the broader community, isn't it? For example, in the second GUID workshop report I found under "conclusions" that a "promotional documentation targeted separately at managers, biologists and IT specialists is urgently required"....<BR>
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This situation generates a lot of questions, e.g., the following:<BR>
- is there already a prototype (LSID format) for a GUID applicable to names governed by the Code?<BR>
- has it already been discussed what are the consequences for the new Code, if GUIDs are to become part of it? (e.g., what about nomenclatural acts that are currently not governed by the Code, like up- and downgradings in rank within family-, genus-, species-group levels?)<BR>
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Best wishes,<BR>
Wolfgang<BR>
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Wolfgang Lorenz, Tutzing, Germany<BR>
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