Re: Call for comment: <draft-iab-doi-04.txt> (Assigning Digital Object Identifiers to RFCs)

[Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> OK, sorry to sound sarcastic, but this isn't a computer science issue, 
> or a matter of hurt pride over http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC2648 or 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kunze-ark/. It's simply what 
> the world uses.

"The world" uses URLs.   There are, in addition to that, communities 
that use DOIs, and communities that use URNs.   And relative to the 
expected useful life of either of the latter kind of names, only a tiny 
amount of time has elapsed.   These identifiers are intended to last 
centuries, but have been around for less than 20 years. There's only a 
tiny bit of buyin into either kind of name relative to their intended 
scope.

Keith