I don't personally use French or Russian. However, I don't believe
that those languages should be outlawed. Some other people appear to
find them useful.
In this case, _we_ may not need or use them and some of us may not
want them to even be available, but we should play well with others.
Anyone who becomes aware of an RFC can probably, if they have any
internet access at all, find http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.html
and locate what they need. The DOI initiative appears to be in
preparation for the day, far in the future, when the RFC Editor no
longer exists.
Perhaps we could support this external initiative by listing DOIs in
our indexes and lists. That way, if the world changes so much that
there is no IETF/IESG live RFC repository with index available, anyone
who can get a copy of the dead-file list will have access to the DOIs
and can still get the RFCs.
Although my personal opinion is that by the time we are no longer
supporting that list we probably won't be using DOIs either.
On 7/9/2015 10:43 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
> Among other things, it creates the impression that IETF doesn't use
its own standards for identifiers.
>
> IMO, DOIs need to cease appearing in RFCs.
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Sandy Wills