Aren't DOIs already pretty established for that, at least for scientific sources? http://www.doi.org/
Granted, they don't have nice names, but the namespace will get cluttered and full anyways.
Granted, they don't have nice names, but the namespace will get cluttered and full anyways.
yea, NOPE!
There are lighter schemes out there but none are household names yet.
If you've already registered a prefix with them (say it's 10.8888), then you have an essentially unlimited namespace of possible suffixes for forming DOIs. Representing two billion DOIs requires only 6 suffix digits in base 36.
What exactly is so difficult about this?