Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

I think there is a bigger issue with encumbering the people of the US for 
paying for creating an indexing system for the IETF to prevent the 
Chair/Trust from doing its job.

I suggest that this is another stupid idea from the Trust to keep them from 
actually answering the question as to what they are going to do to
    1)    Protect IETF IP's
    2)    Market those IP's

Todd Glassey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Crocker" <steve@shinkuro.com>
To: "IETF Discussion" <ietf@ietf.org>
Cc: "IAOC" <iaoc@ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:17 PM
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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