Re: [Rfced-future] Style guide and other non-strategic things ** Consensus check on part of Issue 12: Is the person an advisor (RSA) or an Executive Editor (RSE) **

[Christian Huitema <[e-mail]>]

On 11/28/2020 10:42 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote:

> Depending upon what you mean by "look exactly like" below, the 
> statement is either irelevant or does not match what I have seen as 
> existing practice.

I mean content and general organization. I do agree with you, Joel, that 
the same style guide applies to all streams.

-- Christian Huitema

>
> We go to significant trouble to create and maintain a consistent look 
> and feel across all RFCs.  there is an argument that they should be 
> more distinguished, as some people think / hope that would reduce the 
> all too common confusions.  (Of course, one would then want I-Ds to 
> look more distinct as well.)
>
> But untill and unless we agree as a community on making that change, 
> our existing practice has been to work for and value such consistency.
>
> Yours,
> Joel
>
> On 11/29/2020 1:36 AM, Christian Huitema wrote:
>> On 11/28/2020 10:12 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>>
>>> On 2020-11-28, at 23:07, Eric Rescorla<[e-mail]>  wrote:
>>>> As I'm sure I've said before, from my perspective, the various 
>>>> streams are
>>>> customers of the RFC series, and ultimately it needs to serve their 
>>>> needs.
>>> Agree completely.
>>>
>>> But the RFC series may actually be better able to serve their needs 
>>> if there is a way to have actual push-back on some not-so-good ideas 
>>> of a particular stream manager.
>>
>>
>> I agree with EKR that having the RPC escalate "author disagreements" 
>> to the stream manager would quickly resolve most of the issues. I am 
>> not too concerned about "uniformity of the series" arguments, since 
>> by definition research papers from the IRTF will not look exactly 
>> like proposed standards from the IETF, or individual contributions in 
>> the independent stream. If that's really becoming a problem, then the 
>> "strategic" body looks like a good place to discuss it.
>>
>> -- Christian Huitema
>>
>>