[rfc-i] DOIs redux

[pkyzivat at alum.mit.edu (Paul Kyzivat)]

On 8/25/16 7:41 PM, Heather Flanagan (RFC Series Editor) wrote:

> Actually, it is indeed a requirement from Crossref to link references to
> DOIs. From the Crossref membership rules:
>
> "6. Members have an obligation to link references in the journal
> articles they deposit via Crossref. The Membership Agreement states that
> a Member has an obligation to actively maximize and maintain its own
> Cross-Linking to other members of PILA or other qualified users of the
> PILA System. Members who have not informed Crossref within 18 months of
> joining that they have instituted outbound linking will have their
> accounts suspended. Members are encouraged to link references in other
> content types for which DOIs are deposited but are not currently
> required to do so." -- http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/59pub_rules.html
>
> (FYI: PILA stands for the Publishers International Linking Association,
> the organization that runs Crossref)

Do I understand correctly that this is a document-by-document 
requirement? IOW, that if one of our documents is assigned a DOI then 
*that* document must include DOIs for all the documents it references 
that also have DOIs.

If so, and if we can't automate the process of including DOIs in our 
references, then I would think we also must not automate assigning DOIs 
to our document. Rather, we could allow authors to manually include DOIs 
in references, and then, *if* they have done that, then assign the 
document its own DOI.

But I had the impression the plan was to assign DOIs to all RFCs.

	Thanks,
	Paul