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Draft ARK Wikipedia "History" section

The concept of ARKs grew out of identifier work begun in 1992 in the newly
formed IETF URI working group as it was trying to finalize the URL
specification in the face of what seemed like a fatal flaw, namely, the high
rate at which URLs were observed to be breaking. In the push to standardize the
URL, the problem of broken links came to be defined as out of scope, becoming
instead a job that the IETF URN effort would address by formalizing a scheme
that used indirect identifiers. By 1998, four such schemes (Handle, URN, PURL,
and DOI), all based on native URL redirection, claimed to provide persistent
identifiers.

The ARK spec was publised from CDL...

The first ARK implementation was in 200? ...

In 2006 the BnF adopted the ARK, with the result that many French institutions
later adopted it....

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