[Discuss-DOI] DOI as URN NID

[tony_hammond@harcourtbrace.com]

The "URI discussion paper and recommendations"  by Titia van der Werf is a
wonderful resume of the URI landscape and I am much indebted to receive this
valuable collection of links to reference RFCs and Internet Drafts.

It does, however, prompt the question of what plans the IDF currently has for
registering DOI as a namespace identifier (NID) with IANA. I raise this as a
matter of some timeliness as I would like to be able to incorporate meaningful
attributes such as

     uri="urn:doi:10.1006/viro.1998.9575"

into metadata records of our online journal holdings. We could always proceed on
this basis anyway on the assumption that one day the DOI will indeed be a
registered URN NID, even though currently with the DOI as identifier we are in
limbo land. I was wondering if there is any reason why the NID should not be
reserved now ahead of time.

Tony Hammond



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