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Re: Call for comment: <draft-iab-doi-04.txt> (Assigning Digital Object Identifiers to RFCs)

2015-07-02 02:33:30
On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 02:34:55PM -0400,
 IAB Chair <iab-chair(_at_)iab(_dot_)org> wrote 
 a message of 16 lines which said:

This is an announcement of an IETF-wide Call for Comment on
draft-iab-doi-04.

The document is being considered for publication as an Informational RFC

This RFC must not be published.

DOIs are the opposite of what the IETF works for: the technical
standard is not freely available (88 swiss francs and I cannot
redistribute it), not developed in an open way, and it is managed by
an opaque private corporation (what about <https://open-stand.org/>).

[If you ask me what identifier we shoulds use, I suggest that our dog
food - URIs - is fine. Otherwise, ARKs
<https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/ARK>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Resource_Key>
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kunze-ark/> are interesting,
too, if we want something widely recognized in the information and
documentation world.]

Online databases and indexes that include RFCs should be updated to
include the DOI, e.g., the ACM Digital Library.

That's the worst part of the RFC: going from an open and working system
(URLs) to a closed and privately controlled one. This sentence must
be removed even if the RFC is published.


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