[fitsbits] DOI for FITS standard document?

[THIERRY FORVEILLE]

> I am by no means an expert on DOIs. We do mint them at MAST for data
> collections and such. On the back-end STScI/MAST contracts with a
> third-party agent to create and maintain DOIs. The DOIs in effect have a
> prefix and some running identifier. If, for example, MAST were to create a
> DOI for v4.0, it would have an STScI prefix. I'm not sure if that is an
> issue. Or someone in an IAU capacity could go to a third-party provider
> (and inherit their prefix), but I suspect there would be some cost
> involved. It would be worth asking if the IAU generates it own DOIs when
> needed, but I have no idea who to ask about that. (I've never seen an org
> chart for the IAU.)
> 
I'd need to check with our publisher as they handle those aspects, but (speaking 
as its editor in chief) A&A could most likely generate one if desired, which
would perhaps have some amount of justification since previous versions of the 
standard were published as A&A papers. I am not necessarily arguing for that
option, just mentioning that it (probably) exists.