Operating and Maintaining the RA Services > Maintaining the Resolution Services

The Registration Agency (RA) is responsible for taking the necessary steps to ensure the proper maintenance of their DOI prefixes and DOI names, including the following:

•An administrator must be designated for each prefix (or set of prefixes): the prefix administrator can create DOI names under their prefix.
The DOI technical support service provider also maintains administrative permission for the prefix. This is intended as backup for administration. Note that the creation of derived prefixes can only be done by the technical support service provider.

NOTE The technical support service provider configures the prefix administrators in the prefix Handle (see Prefix Handle Example).

•Secure maintenance of private keys must be ensured by each administrator.

•Service configuration changes must be timely reported to the DOI technical support service provider.

•The RA must inform the technical support service provider and the DOI Foundation in the event of any major operation on the DOI names that could possibly interrupt the mirroring mechanism.

•Additional requirements apply to RAs who operate their own LHS: see LHS Operation Requirements.