On 2015-7-7, at 17:49, John C Klensin <john@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Unless the IAOC and RFC Editor negotiated a particularly unusual > deal with the chosen DOI Registration Agency, probably not. In > general, signing up to issue DOIs carries with it not only a set > of charges but an obligation to use DOIs in one's own documents. As Eliot said, it seems to be a request, not an obligation. The ACM and IEEE - both of which assign DOIs for all their publications - are not turning down papers because the authors didn't include DOIs in their bibliographies, and neither would we. Lars
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