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Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

"John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Mon, 09 May 2011 23:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793
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In article <516EBEA6-E089-4952-AE33-DE799E37548A@mnot.net> you write:
>If only there were some uniform resource locator system, whereby we
>could use a string to both identify and locate such a document, and
>include such a string *in* our specifications. 

It exists, it's called a DOI.  I don't understand them well enough yet
to have an opinion whether it would be worth the hassle and possible
cost of assigning DOIs to RFCs.  But if you look in Xplore and the ACM
DL, just about everything has one.

R's,
John

PS: Were you thinking of something else?

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