The Internet Engineering Task Force Administrative Oversight Committee plans to issue a Request for Proposal in 2006 for the performance of the RFC Editor functions. To that end the IAOC is issuing a Request for Information to identify organizations interested in pursuing contract award, as well as comments and suggestions from any party about the functions, practices and structure of the RFC Editor. The RFC Editor functions include: (1) Editorial management and publication of the "Request for Comment" (RFC) document series, which includes the permanent document repository of the IETF community; (2) Editorial management and publication of RFCs from Independent Submissions; (3) Maintenance of indices, errata and lists associated with RFCs; (4) Communication of relevant RFC and processing information online; and (5) Liaison with and training of IETF community. The RFI can be found at: www.ietf.org at the IASA link. Responses are due no later than June 21, 2006 to rfc-editor-rfi2006@ietf.org. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary and may be used in the development of an RFP. Questions about this RFI can be addressed to: rfc-editor-rfi2006@ietf.org All questions and answers will be posted on the aforementioned website. Ray Pelletier IETF Administrative Director _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
