ok, I understand the desire to partition the work. pub-req will be agnostic with respect to: - What a stable permanent identifier is and how many classes of identifiers there are - Who owns and who assigns the stable permanent identifiers
Godspeed to the newtrk work on this. Stephen > -----Original Message----- > From: Spencer Dawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Techspec] New requirement for early permanent ID > allocation > > > From: "John C Klensin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> It is also recommended that the technical publisher retains > >> control of the allocation of permanent identifiers. This is > >> especially true when multiple organizations (IESG, IAB, IRTF) > >> share a single identifier sequence. One way that this might > >> work is for the IESG to request "publication" or "publication > >> with early allocation" > > > > Please separate this into a separate issue. To the extent to > > which we are going to maintain multiple sets of numbers, some of > > which apply to subsets of the others, the standards-track > > reference ID (currently STD, but its assignment only to Full > > Standards is another NEWTRK issue) and other reference IDs > > should arguably be controlled directly by some IASA-associated > > entity or contractor that is different from the technical > > publisher. I understand this effort to be defining a "technical > > publisher" role. If that role is to be one of a publisher, > > rather than having broader standards-management functions, then > > we had better be _very_ careful about what the IDs are and who > > assigns them. > > I agree with John here. I'm not sure I understand the case > for continuing > current practice, at a minimum. > > > And, again, who assigns the identifier is a very different issue > > from when that identifier is assigned. > > Ack. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Techspec mailing list > [email protected] > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/techspec > _______________________________________________ Techspec mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/techspec
