Re: Informational RFC to be: draft-paskin-doi-uri-02.txt

[The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>]

To the RFC Editor,

The IESG recommends that The "doi" URI Scheme for the Digital Object 
Identifier (DOI) <draft-paskin-doi-uri-03.txt> NOT be published as an 
Informational RFC.  Please note that version -03, which was submitted on 
May 8, 2003, is the version that was reviewed by the IESG.

This document proposes a top-level URI scheme, doi, and contains details 
about the usage of this identifier in a community of use centered on the 
International DOI Foundation. After receiving this draft from the RFC 
Editor, the IESG requested that the URI be reviewed by the team at 
uri-review@ietf.org to see if it fit within the guidelines established by 
RFC 2717/BCP35. Though the authors and reviewers have had a productive 
discussion of the draft, the IESG has concluded that this draft does not 
meet the requirements of RFC 2717, section 3.2.

The IESG notes, however, that the original intention of those crafting RFC 
2717 was to set up registration trees outside the IETF tree, in order to 
enable registrations by those whose community of use lay largely outside 
the context of IETF standards. After a long pause in the development of 
those registration procedures, the responsible AD has asked Larry Masinter 
to take on editorship of a proposed set of procedures for these 
registrations. The IESG encourages the draft's authors to work with him on 
those guidelines and, when they are complete, to register the doi scheme in 
the non-IETF tree that they will set up.

Thank you,

The IESG Secretary