Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

would the ISSN apply to the whole series?

--bill

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:52:09PM -0400, Ray Pelletier wrote:
> The IETF Trust is considering applying to the U.S. Library of Congress 
> to obtain an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for the RFC 
> Series and would like community input to inform its decision.  The Trust 
> may take up this matter on June 11th.  
> 
> An ISSN is applied to serials - print or non-print publications issued 
> in parts.  A serial is  expected to continue indefinitely. Serials 
> include magazines, newspapers, annuals, journals, proceedings, 
> transactions of societies, and monographic series. Other SDOs, such as 
> the IEEE, have obtained ISSNs for their publications.  A single ISSN 
> uniquely identifies a title regardless of language or country in which 
> published, without the burden of a complex bibliographic description. 
> The ISSN itself has no significance other than the unique identification 
> of a serial.
> 
> The Trust believes there are advantages to indentifying the RFC Series 
> with an ISSN.  Among them,
> 1. Make reference to the series compact and globally unique;
> 2. Make the series, and individual RFCs, easier to reference in some 
> contexts;
> 3. Results in accurate citing of serials by scholars, researchers, 
> abstracters, and librarians;
> 4. ISSN registrations are maintained in an international data base and 
> are made available in the ISSN Register online
> 
> 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.
> 
> There is no cost associated with obtaining ISSNs.
> 
> Ray Pelletier
> IAD
> Trustee
> 
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--bill

Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).

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