2001 born: ARK spec + John Kunze publishes the first ARK specification and the NAAN registry2005? born
2004: John makes the first public ARK resolver (noid.cdlib.org) available on the Internet and shares the code base
2006: ARK resolver renamed N2T.net per a vision of community ownership, starts doing compact identifiers
2009: on internet (NOID first?) (when code first available)
2009? CDL helps found DataCite to promote the use of DOIs
2010? born EZID / N2T as : CDL releases EZID as a fee-based, ( partial ) cost-recovery service (DOIs&ARKs)
by 2018, 120 clients internationally
2017 DataCite announces changes to membership/fee structure supporting both ARKS & DataCite DOIs
2010-2016: CDL (Joan Starr) grows the EZID service to 120 clients globally with a goal to achieve full cost-recovery
2015: Blog post on principles of open scholarly infrastructure (Bilder, Lin, Neylon) re-affirms community vision
2016: DataCite announces intention to change their fee structure and introduce service fees based on volume of activity activity; CDL decides to support DataCite by transitioning EZID non-UC
DOI customers to DataCite, and to create open community to support ARKs
2018 CDL and DuraSpace plan the AITO concept
Fall-2018 Launch of community engagement
2017: CDL approaches DuraSpace to consider the viability of an open-source project/community for ARKs
2018: The ARKsInTheOpen.org project launches
end state --dream outcome?
arks-only ezid instance, micro-payments