[rfc-i] DOIs redux

duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp ( Martin J. Dürst ) Fri, 26 August 2016 01:19 UTC

From: duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp (=?UTF-8?Q?Martin_J._D=c3=bcrst?=)
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 10:19:20 +0900
Subject: [rfc-i] DOIs redux
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On 2016/08/26 05:51, HANSEN, TONY L wrote:
> There is a portion of the DOI agreement that says we SHOULD include DOIs for other references, when possible.
>
> RFC 7669:
>
>        4.4.  Use of DOIs in RFCs
>
>           The DOI agency requests that documents that are assigned DOIs in turn
>           include DOIs when possible when referring to other organizations'
>           documents.

Everybody may already have got this, but I think the important part here 
is "other organizations". As far as I understand, in general RFCs don't 
actually cite that many journal articles,..., so on average, this 
requirement may not be that bad.

Regards,   Martin.