--On Thursday, January 08, 2009 13:09 -0500 Ray Pelletier <rpelletier@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> (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 Sorry to be pedantic about this. Regardless of how it is titled, that is a informal style guide (reading it makes that clear) whose actual status (e.g., whether it complements RFC 2223 or the long-in-draft 2223bis or supercedes them) is unclear. What would turn it into a style manual would presumably be IAB signoff under the RFC Editor Model document, which is itself a draft. And, at least when I last looked at that section, the RFC Editor Model draft assigns responsibility for the style manual to the Series Editor and does not grandfather the current RFC Editor into that specific role, the aggregate "RFC Editor function" notwithstanding. So one cannot assume, absent language in the draft RFI that isn't there, that the Production House should assume that rfc-style-manual-08 is the reference Style Manual until and unless it is replaced or updated. If, for the purposes of the RFI, you want to identify that draft as the basis for the Style Manual that will be used by the Production House until it is replaced, then say so and reference it. john _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf