The IDF has established a series of mailing lists for both public and private subscription. The lists are fully described in Section 7.8 of the DOI^® Handbook chapter on The International DOI Foundation. These lists use a web-based interface and several of them maintain an archive of list messages.

Some of the discussion lists support the activities of IDF Working Groups, which are also fully described in the DOI^® Handbook, in Section 7.7.

• DOI^® News
  News@DOI.org is a broadcast list which provides subscribers with announcements from the IDF covering the latest activities and developments. It is not a discussion list. Anyone who is interested may join. To be added to the list, please send a request to contact@doi.org and include "Subscribe Me to DOI News" in the subject line.

In addition to the working groups and lists shown below, specialist subgroups are periodically established to handle detailed technical discussions as needed.

• Members
  Members@DOI.org is a private list for members of the International DOI Foundation.

• IDF-Board
  IDF-Board@DOI.org is a private list for IDF Board Members only. Contact Norman Paskin (n.paskin @doi.org) for information.

• Members Working Group
  MWG@doi.org list is a discussion list for IDF member organizations, covering technical and operational issues, and for exchange of views on strategic issues in an early stage of discussion. The list requires approval to join. Send email to contact@doi.org.

• CONTECS:DD
  This is a closed list for use by the CONTECS:DD consortium, which supports the indecs2RDD activity and subsequent use in MPEG-21 and DOI's metadata activities. [ CONTECS:DD Web Page - For Members Only. ]

• Handle-Info
  This is a list for Handle System users, administrators and developers.