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

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Tue, 04 December 2007 03:43 UTC

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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:40:59 -0800
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: "Tom.Petch" <sisyphus@dial.pipex.com>, Lixia Zhang <lixia@CS.UCLA.EDU>
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--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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