--On Thursday, 22 May, 2008 02:38 -0700 Bill Manning <bmanning@xxxxxxx> wrote: > there are also books already published that are RFC > compilations. they already have ISSN numbers. No, almost certainly they have ISBN numbers, not ISSN numbers. See one of my earlier notes. There are order a half-dozen of these ISxy "numbers", for books, serials, music, audio-visual materials (including, I think, movies) and other things, Some near variation on DOIs(tm) are in the process of becoming another one. Each has a different purpose and scope. It is important to not get them confused, especially since there are many circumstances in which the same thing, or different presentation forms of the same thing, can be assigned more than one of them. john _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf