Re: [Rfcplusplus] Conversation as metaphor

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 11 July 2018 02:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rfcplusplus] Conversation as metaphor
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On 11/07/2018 08:45, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
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> Others seem to be arguing that the RFC series should in fact welcome
> anything on any topic,

Really? I haven't seen that and it seems like a strawman to me.

The Independent stream has criteria that have already been mentioned
here; relevance to the Internet and surviving peer review are among them.

> and as long as they can find someone willing to
> let them in, there's no reason they shouldn't be in the RFC series too
> (i.e. we shouldn't prohibit people "from publishing RFCs when they
> want to do so and find it valuable to do so").  It is an interesting
> question whether, if I wanted to publish an RFC about Wittgenstein's
> remarks on colour, whether the ISE would consider it.  We do have the
> April 1st ones, after all.

But even they are tested for relevance to the Internet and are peer
reviewed, just not in public for fairly obvious reasons.

   Brian