[private reply] On 2/25/21 4:21 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Nevertheless, it is in general hard to get RFCs recognised as valuable for tenure and promotion purposes, compared to more traditional publication streams such as highly-rated journals. That's one reason we didhttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1672308.1672315 but I'm not sure it has had much impact.
Back when I was a university researcher, one of my rejected grant proposals got returned with a note from a reviewer that said "you're spending time at the wrong conferences and citing the wrong kinds of references". (Referring to IETF conferences and RFCs.)
