On 5/21/08 5:39 PM, "Brian E Carpenter" <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Possibly not, but there is still a crusty old world of academic > publications with traditional reference styles out there, and an ISSN > will make it much more straightforward to cite RFCs in peer-reviewed > publications. +1 that it's a no-brainer. Hi - I'm really not trying to be a contrarian, just trying to sort through the actual issues here. I don't think I've ever seen a reference that included an ISSN. I've also never seen one used as a subject header (index term) in cataloging. The only time I've personally seen them used is as *descriptive* information in a catalog (library catalog, publisher's catalog, etc.). I'm sure someone will be happy to dig up a counterexample but I do think they're pretty unusual. Really, what are the odds that someone knows the ISSN but not the title or the author or the publisher or ... ? The practical benefit I see here is getting the Library of Congress (and who knows? maybe the British Library, etc.) to catalog the series as a series, but again I'm unclear on the practical benefit, since RFCs are incredibly easy to find *as* RFCs; that is to say, by the information by which the series will be cataloged and classified. I don't see any disadvantage to doing it, it's just that I can't see much advantage, either. I figure we should just go ahead and do it and not have any expectations that the RFCs will be any more accessible, any more searchable, etc. More like a change in status than a change in substance. Melinda _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf