On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 08:23:02AM -0400, Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 13 lines which said: > On a side note: If we want something URN-like that actually has > traction outside the IETF, DOIs seem like the right approach. Certainly not! They are managed by a closed private company, without any indication that they will stay in business for ever. They are incredibly expensive. They are not resolvable (nobody implements RFC 3650 and al.) We have plenty of good solutions to identify RFC (RFC 2648, RFC 4151, and just ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfcNNN.txt, etc). DOI must not be used. _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf