[rfc-i] DOIs redux

[brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com (Brian E Carpenter)]

On 26/08/2016 13:19, Martin J. D?rst wrote:
> 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.

It's not bad as a burden on *authors*, because most times someone who cites
an academic article will already have the DOI. I think it would be a significant
burden for the RFC Editor staff or for the xml2rfc implementors.

    Brian