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Comment by jgord

3 days ago

I thought thats why we had urls not only IP addresses ..

which reminds me, who has control over DOI.org ... eg. is it DOGE-safe ? likewise arXiv .. can it easily be co-opted / subsumed ?

I’ve met the folks behind DOI. Very nice people (Jonathan Clark in particular).

It’s an independent foundation and they have backups/contingency plans established with major universities to preserve the DOI records in the event the foundation fails.

https://www.doi.org/the-foundation/board-and-governance/

Maybe it would be better to identify papers via a hash of their contents so that there's nothing to co-opt.

  • ... theres an argument to having arXiv paper hashes, and/or important digitalia checksums put on a blockchain.

    detect-ability of state-actor post-facto editing : DEI related or otherwise