Paul, > 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)
It's more than a few times a year. There were 14 documents processed for Expedited Publication in December through February (so far) - The total RFCs published in this time (my count, may not be perfect) was about 130, so the Expedited documents were about 10%. Expedited documents entail significant extra effort by the RFC Editor and the authors, AD, and WG Chair shepherds, as well as affecting the queue. Want more? Some SDOs which use our work a lot, 3GPP, OMA, 3GPP2, have sites with lists of the drafts and when these drafts need to be citable because the SDO's work gets finished. IETF folks and folks from the SDO hold discussions to adjust the expectations in both directions, but these lists have over 50 documents and dates. "Quick highest priority publication" is what we're doing now, but it's pretty painful. Allison _______________________________________________ Techspec mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/techspec
