ePIC has rules and policies, how to provide PID services and how to ensure the reliability, that is necessary for the persistency of access to digital objects via ePIC PIDs.

CLARIN: European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology CNIC: Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China CSC: IT Center for Science CSCS: Swiss National Supercomputing Centre DKRZ: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GRNET: Greek Research and Technology Network GWDG: Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen SND: Swedish National Data Center SURF: SURF is the collaborative ICT organization for higher education and research in the Netherlands