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Re: "community" for the RFC series

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 07 October 2019 03:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: "community" for the RFC series
To: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>, ietf@ietf.org
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:16:26 +1300
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On 07-Oct-19 12:26, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 10/6/19 5:19 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
>> Without denying that the IETF is the largest source of RFCs, I would say
>> that responsibility exists for all streams, and the integration point is
>> the RFC Editor.
> 
> This makes less and less sense to me every time I think about it 
> again.   The RSE should not be changing the intended content of RFCs 
> produced by IETF consensus. 

No, of course not, nor for any other stream for that matter. Of course there
can always be disagreement about whether a particular edit changes the
intent, but the principle is clear. Isn't that why the concept of stream
managers was invented some years ago?

> So the RSE's role, relative to the actual 
> technical content of standards, should be a very limited one.    Yet 
> somehow the responsibility to serve the greater user community is being 
> put on the RSE?

That's over-interpreting what I intended to say.

    Brian

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