On 07/02/2015 07:05 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
On 01/07/15 19:34, IAB Chair wrote:
Dear colleagues,
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
within the IAB stream, and is available for inspection here:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-doi/
The Call for Comment will last until 2015-07-29. Please send comments to
iab(_at_)iab(_dot_)org.
I think this is just fine - the draft documents what has been
done already and works already. I like that rfc1149 is used
as the example:-)
I dunno if having a DOI for all RFCs is a huge deal, but it's
at worst harmless and probably slightly helpful from my sort-of
academic perspective.
On the contrary, having DOIs without having URNs does tremendous harm to
an established IETF standard that is actually in wide use (though not
widely used in the same circles that use DOIs).
I also think it's absurd, given IETF's longstanding commitment to free
and open access, that IETF would favor an identifier scheme that
effectively imposes a tax on document publishers.
Keith