[j-pb]

Nothing based on DOIs and OCRIDs will ever be properly decentralised.

You need content addressing and cryptographic signatures for that.

[tbrownaw]

Email is pretty decentralized without those things.

[j-pb]

And it is infamously insecure, full of spam, and struggles with attachments beyond 10mB.

So thank you for bringing it up, it showcases well that a distributed system is not automatically a good distributed system, and why you want encryption, cryptographic fingerprints and cryptographic provenance tracking.