On 2015-7-7, at 10:01, Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It is not an obligation but a request, and there is a very big > difference. Further, if what we are talking about is adding a DOI a > reference entry, what is the big deal? In fact, if there is a known DOI > all the better to find the source, especially for external references. > Why *wouldn't* we encourage that? +1 And if we have to add a "no_doi" option to the xml2rfc vocabulary to appease those that don't want their references polluted by DOIs, that's a possibility. Kinda silly, because we'd be spending development cash on a feature that probably few folks would care to use, but we could. Lars