Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu> Thu, 22 May 2008 12:23 UTC

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On a side note: If we want something URN-like that actually has  
traction outside the IETF, DOIs seem like the right approach. See http://www.doi.org/ 
  Articles in our closest technical disciplines, namely those  
published by ACM and IEEE, already have DOIs, both for journal and  
conference articles.

This is obviously completely orthogonal to the ISSN issue.

Henning
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