On 4/14/2011 9:09 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:
>    I will investigate further how we could become a DOI registry agency ourselves.

To be clear, you wouldn't want to be what I call a "registrar" (not sure 
if that's what DOI calls them), which is a much higher-level 
infrastructural agency like CrossRef or DataCite, that is responsible 
for a huge chunk of DOI's with it's own high-level DOI namespace.

I am not sure _what_ you'd want to be. If going through CrossRef, then I 
guess you'd want to join CrossRef.  If going through DataCite, then I 
suspect the EZID service is sufficient and there's no reason to do 
anything else. And of course you could do both. Or something else 
entirely that I don't understand, I probably still don't have the whole 
picture of DOI possibilities.

Jonathan