On a side note: If we want something URN-like that actually has traction outside the IETF, DOIs seem like the right approach. See http://www.doi.org/ Articles in our closest technical disciplines, namely those published by ACM and IEEE, already have DOIs, both for journal and conference articles. This is obviously completely orthogonal to the ISSN issue. Henning _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf