On Oct 29, 2025, at 08:11, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> 
> I don't see why they would change. It would be a nuisance, and it would be a 
> bug to change the DOIs. Code I've written has inserted/removed leading zeros 
> for RFCs <1000, but should work seamlessly when RFC10000 appears.

+1

I think the implementation would be: "RFC%04d”

So we do RFCnnnn for N < 10k, and the necessary number of digits for N ≥ 10k.
This should work throughout the system for the stable identifiers.

We are referencing older RFCs in the text with anchors like “RFC20” inside 
newer I-Ds and RFCs, but that stays internal to that document; the DOI remains 
10.17487/RFC0020 .

Grüße, Carsten

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