Comment by sebmellen
3 days ago
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.
.. we need a Foundation .. and a second Foundation :]
It's just like O'Brien always said.. you've _got_ to have a redundant backup.
(Third foundation?)
Their whole organisation should have been a hash function...
DOI must die
Should be done with Web3.
Scientific publishing is one of the very few legit use cases for block-chains imo.
But magnet links and the BitTorrent mainline hash-table are a better DOI than DOI.
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