Re: [Rgchairs] thoughs about the IRTF

Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net> Tue, 02 November 2004 00:02 UTC

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To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, Vern Paxson <vern@icir.org>
From: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
Subject: Re: [Rgchairs] thoughs about the IRTF
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I would be reluctant to confuse this publication stream with individual 
submissions, and I think it would be useful to define a clear path via the 
IRTF Chair (or the IRSG) from the IRTF to the RFC Editor to a published 
document.


    Geoff



At 06:58 PM 1/11/2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:


>--On søndag, oktober 31, 2004 00:26:09 -0400 John R Levine 
><johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>
>>I agree with Juergen that the IRTF could use more visibility.  A clearer
>>path to publishing informaitional and experimental RFCs would both be
>>useful on its own merits and for the visibility issue.
>
>Being somewhat disingenious:
>
>What path could be clearer than "write a good internet-draft, get RG 
>consensus on it, and ask the RFC Editor to publish it"?
>
>I don't believe we can make it much simpler than that. (And the IESG has 
>promised to mostly get out of the way of independent-submission 
>publication - gives more responsibility to RG folks to get things right, 
>but less hassle in the publication path)
>
>                      Harald
>



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