2001: John Kunze publishes the first ARK specification and the NAAN registry
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: CDL helps found DataCite to promote the use of DOIs
2010: CDL releases EZID as a fee-based, partial cost-recovery service 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
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
