[Esip-preserve] Need for recommended best practice for DOI minting?

[James Frew]

On 2012-09-07 10:26, Ruth Duerr wrote:
> While the ESIP citation guidelines do talk briefly about best practices in minting DOI's - specifically
>
> "Best practice is that the suffix of the identifier does not include a reference to the archive in case the data are moved from the original location where the persistent identifier was assigned initially."
>...
> Is a more comprehensive best practices warranted? If so, what should it say?

Informally, something like:

"Don't encode anything in a DOI that won't be true 100 years from now."

/Frew