On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 11:08:12AM -0400, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote a message of 35 lines which said: > Maybe the choice of DOIs is more or less arbitrary or reflects a > too-narrow community of discussion There is a very aggressive marketing from the private comopany which sells DOIs. Like most marketing, it relies partly on pure lies (for instance FUD against the properties of the URIs). It seems to be often successful.