On 7/9/15 2:59 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > It might be worth stating this in the affirmative: The URN situation is > entirely independent of the DOI situation and it is important to handle > the two topics entirely separately. I don't think they're entirely independent. It seems to me that the question of why we're not providing resolution services or indexing URNs is somewhat different from the question of why we're not providing resolution services or indexing URNs when we're paying money and cycles to provide indexing and access using some other bibliographic identifier. One looks like an oversight or constrained resources, the other suggests that we're thinking about bibliographic identifiers and have the money to support their assignment but are going with DOIs. Melinda