Re: [IAOC] ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

On May 23, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:

> I would rather pay $1 to provide bigger, better cookies or tap- 
> dancing penguins during the plenaries.rsha

I don't think $1 USD would pay for one of those bigger, better,  
cookies, so I guess tap-dancing penguins it is.

Regards
Marshall

>
> I see no value in doing this and in fact plenty of reasons to oppose  
> it.
>
> Where is the $1500 of value to the IETF here? I can see the value to  
> DOI. If the IETF were to go this route it should be expecting DOI to  
> be paying a cut of the additional business generated, not to hand  
> money over.
>
> From: wgchairs-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of Marshall Eubanks
> Sent: Thu 22/05/2008 9:10 AM
> To: Henning Schulzrinne
> Cc: Working Group Chairs; IAB; IETF Discussion; IAOC; Bill Manning;  
> John C Klensin; RFC Editor
> Subject: Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration
>
>
> On May 22, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> Note that
>
>     DOI is a registered URI within the info-URI namespace (IETF RFC
> 4452, the "info" URI Scheme for Information
>     Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces). Further information
> is available at http://info-uri.info.
>
> These are not free; if we got DOI's for all RFCs through, e.g.,
> Bowker, it would cost
>
>     Up to 9999 DOIs - $1500 per year
>
> I think it would be a good idea. A $ 1 increase in registration fees
> would more than pay for it.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
>
> > This is obviously completely orthogonal to the ISSN issue.
> >
> > Henning
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