Hi, On 7/2/15 4:34 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >> At negligible cost. > How much? I don't remember having seen the actual cost mentioned > anywhere. And, as John Klensin noticed here, the agreement between the > RFC editor and the FIFA of DOI is secret. From the draft: > The > prices are fairly low, on the order of $660/year for membership, 15 > cents per document deposit fees for a bulk upload of the backfile > (the existing RFCs), and $1/per document to deposit them as they are > published. And to John's other point: > Other than the "eat your own dogfood" principle, it unclear to > me that any particular one of them is a clear choice. Maybe the > choice of DOIs is more or less arbitrary or reflects a > too-narrow community of discussion (raising, again, the question > of why the community is being asked only now). But, if this is > going to be posted as an IAB document, I think the IAB is > obligated to explain the decision, rather than putting up a > document that strongly implies that DOIs are the only plausible > choice. There's a reason why the IAB is vested with this responsibility. A bunch of engineers who know absolutely nothing about the publishing industry and seemingly little about academia shouldn't make this decision. The professional the IAB hired made a recommendation based on a lot of discussion with a lot of people. Please let's make a mole hill out of a mole hill, for once. Eliot
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