Re: Last Call: RFC Editor Services Draft RFI

[Ray Pelletier <rpelletier at isoc.org>]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 11:57 PM, John C Klensin wrote:

> This document is hard to comment on because it raises, and
> mixes, a number of separate issues.  A large number of those
> involve questions that the RFI responses might reasonably
> address; I have omitted those from these comments unless they
> are directly related to more immediate issues.
>
> The document is repetitive internally and duplicates material
> from other materials.  In particularly, Appendix B duplicates
> much of the material on pages 3 - 5.  I have not made these
> comments longer by pointing out each place a particular problem
> occurs.
>
> Major issues:

> <snip>

> (13) The Production Center is committed to follow the
> provisions of a Style Manual that does not exist today, is
> unlikely to exist when the RFP goes out, and may become the
> first task for the newly-appointed RFC Series Editor in January
> 2010.   I hope the IAB has a plan about how that particular bit
> of transition is going to be handled and that the plan has been
> vetted by the IAOC.  If not, this is another internal normative
> dependency.

John,

The Style Manual is located here:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-style-guide/rfc-style-manual-08.txt

Ray

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