--On Thursday, July 09, 2015 11:04 -0400 "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How about, if we have something better to include, we add > that. Then, if we find that the world is using what we > produced, and not using DOIs, we can stop using the DOIs. > While some folks have commented on list that they do not need > DOIs for academic purposes, other folks have been very clear > that it is very helpful. In addition to some other things for which it may be desirable to round up proposals, we have something we allege to be better in the form of "urn:ietf:rfc:2648" (as described in, RFC 2648). When can we expect those identifiers to start appearing explicitly in the RFC Index and metadata and in at least references to RFCs within newly-issued documents in the RFC Series? john