The IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC), on behalf of the RFC
Editor, announces this
Request for Proposals to assign digital object identifiers to RFCs The
successful
bidder will enter into a contract with the Internet Society.
The RFC Editor intends to assign a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to each RFC
in the series. Assigning
DOIs entails extracting information from the series to date to be used as input
to a bulk registration for
existing RFCs, and changes to the production system to automatically acquire
and incorporate DOIs into
future RFCs.
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a widely used system that assigns unique
identifiers to digital
documents that can be queried and managed in a consistent fashion. The
structure of DOIs is defined
by ISO 26324:2012 [ISO-DOI] and is implemented by a group of registration
agencies coordinated by
the International DOI Foundation. Each DOI is associated with bibliographic
metadata about the object,
including one or more URIs where the object can be found. DOIs would make RFCs
easier to cite. The
benefits of DOIs apply equally to documents from all of the RFC submission
streams, so all RFCs would
get DOIs.
The RFP can be found at: <https://iaoc.ietf.org/rfps.html>.
Proposals must be received via email at iaoc-tmc(_at_)ietf-bids(_dot_)org no
later than November 26, 2014. All
questions, inquiries must be submitted by November 7, 2014. Responses to
questions and inquiries
shall be posted online at: <https://iaoc.ietf.org/rfps.html> by November 13,
2014.
The point of contact regarding this RFP is the IETF Administrative Director,
Ray Pelletier, iad(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org.
Ray Pelletier
IAD