The Case for Public Resource Identifiers: A Call for action

Steve Pepper calls for the consistent adoption of Public Resource Identifiers (PRI) to allow merging. PRIs are basically PSI using a URL rather than other forms of URI. In a nutshell:

1. A Public Resource Identifier (PRI – “pry”) is an http:URI that has been minted for the explicit purpose of serving as an identifier
2. It resolves to a Public Resource Descriptor (PRD) that describes which resource (subject) it identifies and states who minted it
3. ANYONE should be able to mint a PRI