Stevan, you said: 'Hence the very same desideratum that Pieter was explicitly endorsing -- full access for every researcher to every journal -- can be met another way: through open archiving by every researcher.'
I don't claim to speak for Pieter but I'm pretty sure he was NOT endorsing an open archive. What he did endorse was a paid-for distributed network, the CrossRef model, but it he didn't say anything about it being open. In his view publishers would still retain the copyright to the work and they would still set tariffs if they chose to. I inferred from what he said that they would also oppose self-archiving. Perhaps we could call on Pieter to clarify that position?
