Re: [Rgchairs] thoughs about the IRTF

Rajeev Koodli <rajeev@iprg.nokia.com> Fri, 12 November 2004 19:09 UTC

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Pete Resnick wrote:

> On 11/2/04 at 9:15 AM +1100, Geoff Huston wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> In among all of the other discussions we've been having about the
> future of the IRTF, one of the things (at least some of us have)
> talked about was a separate "Research" track (akin to the Standards
> track) for IRTF documents so that research folks could have some
> recognition other than "just another Informational document".
> Personally, I think this would be a good thing.
>

I definitely agree (again). This ("Research" track RFC)
provides us means to inform the community of a peer review
process and offer a "status" for refereed work. Quite a few folks,
especially from academia, are hesitant to bring in contributions
exactly due to this existing deficiency!

Regards,

-Rajeev





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