--- On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> 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.

That's correct.  You probably don't want to become a registration agency.
To support user's creation of individual DOIs via our EZID service, we
(CDL) pay thousands of dollars annually.

-John

>
> 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
>