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Re: [EXTERNAL] [BOFChairs] Proposed IESG statement on referencing documents behind a paywall

Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@gmail.com> Fri, 14 June 2019 04:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [BOFChairs] Proposed IESG statement on referencing documents behind a paywall
From: Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@gmail.com>
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Hi Glenn,

> On Jun 12, 2019, at 9:50 PM, Deen, Glenn (NBCUniversal) <Glenn.Deen@nbcuni.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Suresh 
> 
> First,  This is a very rational way to deal with the issue. 
> 
> However, and I do hate to raise this, but some SDOs are now not only paywall restricting but restricting due to geo-political issues, do we need to also flag and warn about cited references that are blocked from regional or even organizational access?
> 
> For a practical example. CTA has blocked access to Huawei due to the BIS directive. 
> 
> In such a case the citation may not be avoidable, but it would seem appropriate to mark the reference as restricted from open world wide access. 

Good point. I think we can address these by including some explanatory text in the Shepherd writeup to describe some of the classes of restrictions we know about. Another issue here is that these restrictions can change over time (in either direction) and there is not much we can do about it.

Thanks
Suresh

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