Yes, this seems like a good idea and I don't see why anyone would have to do any work other than the RFC Editor. Are the tools we use really so brittle that adding a line with "ISSN xxxx-xxxx" or "urn:ISSN:xxxx-xxxx" or whatever somewhere in the upper left corner of the first page of an RFC will break them?
Donald -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Crocker Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:18 PM To: IETF Discussion Cc: IAOC Subject: Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration Naw. The ISSN has to be on the document itself. As you point out, this isn't something to be done with Internet Drafts, so it falls naturally to the RFC Editor, not to the individual authors. Steve On May 22, 2008, at 3:14 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Mostly sounds fine, with one small glitch. > > At 1:52 PM -0400 5/21/08, Ray Pelletier wrote: >> According to the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/issn/, for serials >> available only in online versions, the ISSN should appear on the >> title >> screen or home page and/or in the masthead or other areas where >> information about publisher, frequency, subscribing, copyright, >> etc. is >> given. > > The value of adding "ISSN: 12345678" to each RFC seems small, > particularly relative to the cost of everyone having to update their > tools and so on. Also, we would have to tell people *not* to put the > ISSN designation in their Internet Drafts (which are not part of the > RFC series), but then switch it on for the RFC, and so on. > > The cost of putting "ISSN: 12345678" on a few pages at rfc-editor.org > and ietf.org is tiny and hopefully sufficient for the statement above. > > --Paul Hoffman > _______________________________________________ > IETF mailing list > IETF@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
