> I think you'd be extremely >hard-pressed to find an organization that can't track down >a publicly-available document that doesn't have a DOI >assigned. DOIs would not make RFCs easier to find and use. Hi there. A long time ago, somone added all of the RFCs up to that time to the ACM digital library. They're still there. Here's a typical one: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=RFC0959&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=690945111&CFTOKEN=66477025 Click on the "Get this RFC" link, and you will find a page that offers to sell you a copy for $15. If we updated the indexes and included DOIs, it'd be our DOI which links directly to our free stuff. If you dig through the archives of this list, you will find a snarky thread in which someone found a power industry standard that referenced an RFC, I think the one for TCP. It provided a link to Global Engineering Documents, who would sell you a printed copy for about $40. Again, now that our references have DOIs, that's likely to show up when people reference them, a robust way to let people get to our free resources. R's, John PS: Thanks for the assertion that I have no idea what I'm talking about.