Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 23 May 2008 13:03 UTC

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Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:03:05 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Steve Crocker <steve@shinkuro.com>
Subject: Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration
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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:20:33AM -0400,
 Steve Crocker <steve@shinkuro.com> wrote 
 a message of 41 lines which said:

> Every so often someone suggests RFCs are not first class documents
> and hence not comparable to, say, "real" standards documents.

That's interesting because not all other SDO do it. ISO, mother of the
ISSN standard, does not use it in this way... ISO standards are
referenced by an ISO-specific syntax (such as "ISO 3297:2007", which
does not seem very different from the syntax "RFC 5141").



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