Re: [Rfcplusplus] Conversation as metaphor

[Ted Hardie <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Eric C Rosen <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> If the IRTF determines that it would prefer a different publication venue,
> I certainly have no problem with that.  We shouldn't force researchers to
> publish their work as RFCs.  (I didn't think we did so, but ...)  If I were
> a researcher, I'd probably want to publish in a reputable academic journal,
> but perhaps my academic experience is a bit dated.
>
> But that's really irrelevant to the main topic of this discussion. What we
> are primarily discussing is whether we should prohibit folks from
> publishing RFCs when they want to do so and find it valuable to do so.
> That's a completely different question.
>
>
I must respectfully disagree that this is an irrelevant question.  The
proposed experiment would establish new identifiers for the work of the
IRTF currently published as a stream within the RFC series.  That output
might (and I acknowledge again that it is only "might") change the academic
assessment of that output while retaining its other characteristics.  I
personally believe this question is thus on topic for a discussion of the
experiment.

regards,

Ted