On Jan 7, 2009, at 11:57 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
This document is hard to comment on because it raises, and mixes, a number of separate issues. A large number of those involve questions that the RFI responses might reasonably address; I have omitted those from these comments unless they are directly related to more immediate issues. The document is repetitive internally and duplicates material from other materials. In particularly, Appendix B duplicates much of the material on pages 3 - 5. I have not made these comments longer by pointing out each place a particular problem occurs. Major issues:
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(13) The Production Center is committed to follow the provisions of a Style Manual that does not exist today, is unlikely to exist when the RFP goes out, and may become the first task for the newly-appointed RFC Series Editor in January 2010. I hope the IAB has a plan about how that particular bit of transition is going to be handled and that the plan has been vetted by the IAOC. If not, this is another internal normative dependency.
John, The Style Manual is located here: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-style-guide/rfc-style-manual-08.txt Ray <snip> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf