At 5:18 PM -0600 2/22/06, Stephen Hayes (TX/EUS) wrote:
Early permanent ID allocation is not something currently done in the IETF. Although there is already a potential requirement to do this, implementing it will imply yet another new potential requirement on the technical publisher.
Given the complexity you describe, and the rareness of the need, might it not be better to change the requirement to "quick highest-priority publication"? The permanent identifier comes with that for free, of course. As long as this only comes up a few times a year (and I think that is more than has been seen to date), the IESG could tell the technical publisher to stick a particular document at the top of the editing queue.
The outside organizations that "need" the identifier will get it more slowly than "just make one up", but they would get the full document. Further, there would be no confusion about what the contents that the identifier point to.
--Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ Techspec mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/techspec
