On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 02:34:55PM -0400, IAB Chair <iab-chair@xxxxxxx> 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 The document is being considered for publication as an Informational RFC This RFC must not be published.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.