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Their whole organisation should have been a hash function... DOI must die
by j-pb 2y ago
Their whole organisation should have been a hash function...
DOI must die
- PaulHoule 2y agoShould be done with Web3.
- j-pb 2y agoScientific 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.
- sebmellen 2y agoDOIs exist so they can be human readable and simultaneously indicate the source and veracity of it. They’re somewhat gated as well which serves a function.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoAre they human readable? As for veracity, wouldn't baking a digital signature into the paper itself be far more reliable? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they exist, but they appear to guard against humans who are lazy and make mistakes sometimes rather than against a powerful adversary motivated to interfere with science. It might be time for an upgrade.
- j-pb 2y agoYet they are bad at every one of those points. * An auto increment ID is just as human non-readable as a UUID, it's just easier to get silent collisions from typos. * The Source is metadata that belongs in a metadata system, not into the ID itself * the veracity is worthless without verifiability * gated-ness is just an anti-feature caused by the lack of verifiability If you you classify identifiers along different axis of their properties, you'll notice that DOIs actually inhabit the completely wrong quadrant for their use-case. (https://docs.rs/tribles/0.5.1/tribles/id/index.html https://docs.rs/tribles/0.5.1/tribles/id/index.html)