[Techspec] Re: RFC Editor SOW Review

Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Thu, 13 July 2006 20:06 UTC

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Subject: [Techspec] Re: RFC Editor SOW Review
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Stewart Bryant wrote:
> Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
>> The SOW will be aligned with the final version
>> of draft-mankin-pub-req, whose text has been adjusted
>> for this point in version 10.
>>
> I just greped v10 and there is no reference to pdf, nor to ps,
> nor to RFC2223.

Your grep missed "text, portable document format (pdf), etc.)"
> 
> The text in section 3.9 in V10 seems ambiguous and should
> align with RFC2223 - Instructions to RFC Authors

It's meant to be wide enough to contain current practice but
not limit us to current practice.

Since RFC 2223 is very old and there are two drafts
proposing to update it, we can't use it as a stable reference
for generic requirements.

     Brian

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