Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

At Wed, 21 May 2008 17:52:55 -0400,
Melinda Shore wrote:
> 
> On 5/21/08 5:39 PM, "Brian E Carpenter" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Possibly not, but there is still a crusty old world of academic
> > publications with traditional reference styles out there, and an ISSN
> > will make it much more straightforward to cite RFCs in peer-reviewed
> > publications. +1 that it's a no-brainer.
> 
> Hi - I'm really not trying to be a contrarian, just trying to
> sort through the actual issues here.  I don't think I've ever seen
> a reference that included an ISSN.  I've also never seen one
> used as a subject header (index term) in cataloging.  The only
> time I've personally seen them used is as *descriptive* information
> in a  catalog (library catalog, publisher's catalog, etc.).  I'm
> sure someone will be happy to dig up a counterexample but
> I do think they're pretty unusual.  Really, what are the odds
> that someone knows the ISSN but not the title or the author or
> the publisher or ... ?

I agree with Melinda here. I can't remember ever seeing anything
like an ISBN or an ISSN used as a citation in an academic paper.

-Ekr
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