On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:21:00 -0400
Richard M Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Steve Bellovin wrote:
>
> Other than giving up the RFC label for Experimental documents,
> it's hard to see what the IETF can do.
>
> Another thing the IETF could do is stop publishing this sort of
> document. Anyone that might ask the IETF to publish one can easily
> publish it on Internet himself.
>
> In the cases where an experimental RFC is useful, how is it more
> useful for the Internet than publication of the same information in
> some other way? Long ago, before search engines, perhaps interested
> people would not have found it elsewhere, but that isn't true now.
>
For the same reason that people publish in conferences and journals --
experimental RFCs are peer-reviewed and accessible via a stable
mechanism.
Of course, the notion of peer review, especially for for-profit
journals, has also been challenged, and for the same reasons you cite.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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