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Re: [Rfced-future] Welcome to the RFC Editor Future Development Program

Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> Thu, 02 April 2020 03:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rfced-future] Welcome to the RFC Editor Future Development Program
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I think what I'm calling the "AUTH48" problem was greatly exacerbated by the format switch, making the normal publishing process of reviewing "galley proofs" to be too onerous for those familiar with the material vs. the RFC Editor who has enough to worry about without knowing what might or might not be significant elements of typography, spacing, emphasis in formats that the author didn't even review (text, html, pdf)

IMHO, the "real problem" from a publishing workflow point of view  is that there is a workflow task that is not explicitly assigned, namely to validate that the to-be-published RFC, in all its published formats, reflects the intent of the author and the body that approved it.

It's easy to imagine the results would be a lot of unmet expectation and finger pointing, and arguments about what the "real problem" was.
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