RE: Should the RFC Editor publish an RFC in less than 2 months?

Comment: For some implementors only peripherally involved with IETF
standards and process but looking at the new RFCs as "news" on standards
it is well a difference whether its an RFC at the time they look or not.
They just wouldn't know about an informal status as "being approved to
be released shortly". 

However, I want to say that I find it excellent that the RFC Editors did
make their job so good that we actually have the chance to have this
"problem discussion". 

Maybe a quite pragmatic approach:
Yes, RFC Editor should hold back until end of formal period for appeals,
but how about just shortening that period to about 45 days instead of
60?

Tobias

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:harald@alvestrand.no]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 7:41 PM
> To: Tom.Petch; Lixia Zhang
> Cc: ietf@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Should the RFC Editor publish an RFC in less than 2
months?
> 
> 
> 
> --On 3. desember 2007 10:09 +0100 "Tom.Petch"
<sisyphus@dial.pipex.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > At the same time, I see the benefits of having the RFC now rather
than
> in
> > February as minimal; early adopters adopt early and are proud to
> announce
> > in their marketing material that their product conforms to I-D
> > draft-ietf-wg-enhanced-protocol.  The date of the arrival of an RFC
is
> > irelevant to them.
> 
> The people who actually care about whether something is an I-D or an
RFC
> are the people who write specifications (other bodies' standards,
RFPs,
> government mandates.... wherever they need a stable identifier).
> 
> For the implementors, an I-D + the fact of approval is sufficient. For
> those who write other documents, it's not - they need the RFC number.
> 
>               Harald
> 
> 
> 
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