(registered 2016-04-15, last updated 2016-12-01) Scheme name: wpid Status: Provisional Applications/protocols that use this scheme name: None Contact: Name: Eld Zierau Addr.: The Royal Library, Digital Preservation Dept. P.O. Box 2149, 1016 Copenhagen K, Denmark Phone: (+45) 9132 4690 Email: elzi&kb.dk Change controller: Name: Eld Zierau Addr.: The Royal Library, Digital Preservation Dept. P.O. Box 2149, 1016 Copenhagen K, Denmark Phone: (+45) 9132 4690 Email: elzi&kb.dk Description: The wpid scheme was introduced in the nominated best paper at the iPRES 2016 conference ("Persistent Web References – Best Practices and New Suggestions", and can be found in the iPRES 2016 proceedings [IPRES]. There have been a lot of useful comments which are taken into account in a RFC to be submitted before end of 2016. The name "wpid" will be changed to "pwid" as a result of the comments. The reasons are: * There was a concern that wpid was interpreted as a PID related to a PID-system as e.g. the DOI. All though PID does not have a precise definition that makes it wrong to call it a wpid, the danger is that it is confused with PID systems which is not the intension * As the title of the iPres 2016 conference paper suggests, the name ´"Persistent Web Identifier" is more straightforward than "Web Persistent Identifier" References: [IPRES] Zierau, E., Nyvang, C., and T. Kromann, "Persistent Web References - Best Practices and New Suggestions", October 2016, . In: proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPres) 2016, pp. 237-246