RE: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

Yes, this seems like a good idea and I don't see why anyone would have
to do any work other than the RFC Editor. Are the tools we use really so
brittle that adding a line with "ISSN xxxx-xxxx" or "urn:ISSN:xxxx-xxxx"
or whatever somewhere in the upper left corner of the first page of an
RFC will break them?

Donald

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
Steve Crocker
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:18 PM
To: IETF Discussion
Cc: IAOC
Subject: Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

Naw.  The ISSN has to be on the document itself.  As you point out,  
this isn't something to be done with Internet Drafts, so it falls  
naturally to the RFC Editor, not to the individual authors.

Steve

On May 22, 2008, at 3:14 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> Mostly sounds fine, with one small glitch.
>
> At 1:52 PM -0400 5/21/08, Ray Pelletier wrote:
>> According to the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/issn/, for serials
>> available only in online versions, the ISSN should appear on the  
>> title
>> screen or home page and/or in the masthead or other areas where
>> information about publisher, frequency, subscribing, copyright,  
>> etc. is
>> given.
>
> The value of adding "ISSN: 12345678" to each RFC seems small,
> particularly relative to the cost of everyone having to update their
> tools and so on. Also, we would have to tell people *not* to put the
> ISSN designation in their Internet Drafts (which are not part of the
> RFC series), but then switch it on for the RFC, and so on.
>
> The cost of putting "ISSN: 12345678" on a few pages at rfc-editor.org
> and ietf.org is tiny and hopefully sufficient for the statement above.
>
> --Paul Hoffman
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