Re: [Rgchairs] thoughs about the IRTF

Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net> Tue, 02 November 2004 00:19 UTC

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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:41:13 +1100
To: Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>
From: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
Subject: Re: [Rgchairs] thoughs about the IRTF
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Personally, I agree with this proposition. In my mind IRTF documents are 
much closer to the original spirit of an actual "request for comment" than 
our standards track and information documents these days.

It seems to me there are two things here that split off in different 
directions if we want to pursue this - the creation of a RFC document track 
for IRTF-sourced documents would probably be a newtrk WG consideration, as 
far as I can see. The process to follow to get IRTF outputs to the RFC 
editor directly would be something for the IAB to work through with the RFC 
Editor and the IRTF chair I would guess.

regards,

    Geoff



At 09:09 AM 2/11/2004, 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.
>
>pr
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>Pete Resnick <http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/>
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