I am concerned about overlap with the official 639-2 site that we have up
at the Library of Congress. We would like to continue to maintain it
there.  Since we all know that the 639-2 list will be growing more rapidly
than the 639-1 list and LC is the maintenance agency for it, we need to
have some control over it.  Thus, I think your idea of just having links
would be the best at this point. I would still consider the persistent
identifier to be those at LOC site, since it's been propagated far and
wide. 

Rebecca

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, [iso-8859-1] Håvard Hjulstad wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have registered the domain www.iso639.org. I noticed that www.iso639.com,
> www.iso639.net, and www.iso639.info were already registered (by an
> organization in Germany), and I figured that it might be a good idea to
> "secure" www.iso639.org. The domain is registered for 10 years in my name.
> However, I am quite willing to transfer ownership to someone else. (But the
> committee as such cannot be the owner.)
> 
> I haven't thought much about what to use the domain for (if anything). (Just
> owning the domain costs about 100 USD for 10 years, but using it costs quite
> a bit more.) We could just have it as an opening page with links to the JAC
> site and other relevant sites. It could also be used more extensively. Any
> thoughts?
> 
> Best regards,
> Håvard Hjulstad
> 
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