At Wed, 21 May 2008 17:52:55 -0400, Melinda Shore wrote: > > 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 ... ? I agree with Melinda here. I can't remember ever seeing anything like an ISBN or an ISSN used as a citation in an academic paper. -Ekr _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf