> The issue, synthesizing Ross's message:
> SRU has an XML schema registry at
> OpenURL has a registry of metadata formats:
> it includes (but is not limited to) XML schemas.

> Is it possible/feasible to agree on one or the other, or will (must)
>we continue to use the SRU-registry identifiers for SRU and the OpenURL
>registry identifiers for OpenURL?

Yes, in principle. Also OAI-PMH metadata formats would be good to bring
into line as well.

However it would require OpenURL and OAI-PMH people to agree...

> (I really do strongly request that we resist the temptation to take
>this thread off-course, like making absurd suggestions that the
>identifer for a schema should be its namespace URI. If you want to
>talk about that, please initiate a new thread.)

Seconded.

Rob