--On Sunday, 23 July, 2006 20:44 -0700 Joe Touch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Bob Braden wrote:
>>>
>>> Agreed. This is a little different - where an entire series
>>> is being farmed out. The good news is that the editor
>>> organization can be replaced, roughly on the timescales that
>>> editors are at comparable journals.
>>
>> The realities of management make it much harder and slower to
>> replace an ORGANIZATION -- a group of people with the skills
>> and motivation necessaary --
>> than to replace a single person. The IETF is embarked on an
>> ambitious experiment in replacing the organization.
>
> The timescale for typical editors is 2-4 years. The timescale
> for the RFC Editor RFP is 2 years. The point is that the
> editor organization impacts the selection of the editorial
> board only during that period, and the periods are similar.
>
> It certainly is ambitious to turnover the RFC Editor every 2 -
> or even 3 - years. Journals tend to do turnover more like 4
> years, and they have much less mechanism to handover.
And, indeed, while journals often turn editors over on 2-4 year
cycles, they typically turn publishers (or organizations that
appoint the editor, which may be different) over very rarely
indeed. I've been through the process of changing publishers,
with the appointing organization remaining relatively constant,
with a journal once and it was not a lot of fun -- took about 18
months before things were running smoothly again, with "monthly"
issues turning up in groups of three or five.
john
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