On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Riccardo Bernardini <framefritti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, in my opinion the major advantage of attaching DOIs to RFCs is not > the fact that it makes it easier to find the RFC (although that is > nice too), but the possibility of getting automatically the meta-data > associated with it and the fact that in application cases as the one > described above RFCs can be handled as any other type of > technical/scientific publication. This observation is also true of Wikipedia—you type one DOI and get all the attributions, rather than having to manually enter a possibly rather large amount of data into a rather ugly markup language.