Pete Resnick wrote: > On 7/10/06 at 8:34 AM -0400, IETF Administrative Director wrote: > >> we seek comments on the Statement of Work located at: >> http://koi.uoregon.edu/~iaoc/ > > - The SOW has nothing about performance expectations (i.e., what is > noted in section 4 of draft-mankin-pub-req-10). Though I don't think the > SOW should have hard requirements in this regard > (draft-mankin-pub-req-10 doesn't), I do think we need to give some > estimate of how many documents they're going to see and their expected > throughput. A bid is going to have to be based on how fast they think > they need to do the editing. Right. Some sort of measure, along the lines of person-hours/document. The problem is that different documents take different amounts of effort, unless we change the basic nature of how documents are currently handled. And that leads to the basic question of professional editing. As I've noted before, my recent experience with the RFC Editor's editors was quite good. They definitely improved the writing in the document. However, such an editorial effort it expensive and I do not understand why this additional expense is needed. It was not needed for 25 or so years. And now we are more sensitive to expenses. So while I understand the desire to improve the writing quality and I definitely believe the RFC Editor's editors do that, I think we need to ask whether we need to have the RFC Editor budget expend those monies. My own conclusion is that we do not. d/ _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf