[Standards] EPIC vs. Handle?

[Tomaz Erjavec]

Dear all,
as I've just been added to this mailing list (thanks!) I take this opportunity to ask something that I've been trying to figure out just yesterday: does CLARIN recommend the use of EPIC or Handles, and what are the pros and cons of each choice?

I did consult the CLARIN documentation but it is somewhat contradictory:
http://www.clarin.eu/sites/default/files/Standards%20for%20LRT-v6.pdf
says that Handles are advised and does not even mention EPIC.
On the other hand http://www.clarin.eu/node/3082 says that CLARIN recommends EPIC.
Also, not sure who is to blame, but the link to the EPIC workshop does not work; if it is EPIC, given that the WS materials are supposed to be on their site, this does not really recommend them as a persistent URL service ;)

As regards info on standards on CLARIN pages, one more bug report:
http://www.clarin.eu/node/3060 (which mentions neither EPIC nor Handles) more information is supposed to be given in the "CLARIN Standardization Action Plan.", but that link is 404.

Best and thanks in advance for any answers or pointers,
Tomaž
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Tomaž Erjavec, http://nl.ijs.si/et/
Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana