> This goes into the same mix as "SDO's rethinking business model". > Surely IEEE would benefit from working citations from IETF to IEEE > documents, in a form that IEEE commits to stability. > https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/2875 > References to resources that can't be read by IETF reviewers > should not be accepted -- perhaps there were some cases in the > past but things have changed. Speaking as a media type reviewer, I require free access to the relevant standards before I'll review a media type in the standards tree. This has led various special arrangements to access specifications that would otherwise cost $$$. Note that this doesn't mean that free access is required for everyone. The requirements for media types in the standards tree are that there be a stable, publicly available specification. Free availability is not part of it. > References to resources that are available now but you're worried they will > be moved or exhobitantly paywalled or lost -- keep "if needed" copies. While I'm not aware of it happening, it's theoretically possible for a standards organization to fail and take all of its specifications with it, just like any other organization. In the case of media types, what constitutes a standards organization able to register types in the standards tree is up to the IESG to access. In theory that assessment includes an accessment of the organizations likely stability. Ned > Just to take "stability of reference" off the table. I read of legal > documents and judements being subject to this for similar archival goals. > -- > https://LarryMasinter.net https://interlisp.org
