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@xxxxxxx. 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. It seems a little odd that there'll now be a direct monetary cost per new RFC, but there've been real costs per-RFC always so that's not really new, just odd. When the style guide is modified I might have comments about "The RFC Style Guide will be updated to describe the rules for including DOIs in the References sections of RFCs" as I don't like new "rules" in general but that'll probably be fine when we get there so long as the style guide has some new advice for using DOIs and doesn't make spending time tracking down a DOI a MUST for authors. Cheers, S. > > Best regards, > Andrew Sullivan > IAB chair > On behalf of the IAB > >