Re: [INDEP] [rfc-i] RFC Editor Structure

[Eric Rescorla <ekr at networkresonance.com>]

At Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:33:44 -0700 (PDT),
Bob Braden wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz,
> 
> You wrote:
>   *> 
>   *> Thanks for info.  Some quick observations while looking at the
>   *> picture of your model:  You don't cover the rather convoluted
>   *> interactions between IESG and "ISS", to fix that please sort
> 
> See RFC 3932.
> 
>   *> the "stream" columns like that:  IAB | IETF | community | IRTF.
> 
> I am not aware of any implied ordering, and I don't know
> what it would mean.
> 
>   *> 
>   *> RFC number assignment should be the privilege of the RFC editor,
>   *> not of some "outsourced" RFC production entity.  This used to be
>   *> great magic in the past, and it is a completely subjective magic.
> 
> It is not a "privilege", but a duty.  And not exactly magic, but the
> community likes it that RFC 2822 was an update to RFC 822, for example.
> Not an accident, though Joyce used to like to pretend it was.

I can't speak for the community, but at least speaking for me, I don't
like it much. It's not something I'm ready to go to the mat on,
but if there was a button that said "stop doing that", I would push it.

-Ekr
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