Use of DOIs and linking to documents etc

[thomasheritage]

Apologies, this is not exclusively about html-pub -- this issue might need to be broken up and moved to other repos but I wasn't sure where...

The html-pub doc says:

The DOI span element should be used, and not the a element, for both the most recent and specific editions of a SMPTE document.

• Will DOIs be created for every published SMPTE Engineering Document so that there's an undated DOI for the document number and a dated DOI for every published version of that document number?
  • Presumably "most recent" in the quote above means the undated DOI (not, say, the latest-version URI or latest-pub URI (see AG 29))? This should be clarified.
  • My understanding is that the undated DOI will always resolve to the all-versions URI (see AG 29)
• Should AG 29 be updated to reflect this usage of DOIs (i.e. how they match to AG 29 URIs), or should it be documented elsewhere?
• The three items I commented on in Specify how to use SMPTE references #313 (comment) are relevant to this topic and still outstanding I believe

[thomasheritage]

My understanding is that dated references should have dated DOIs and undated references should have undated DOIs. This would seem to make sense and matches the example in https://doc.smpte-doc.org/html-pub/main/#sec-norm-refs-section

It would be useful for html-pub docs to state this explicitly (in addition to the other clarifications covered on this issue re DOIs).