Melinda Shore wrote: > >From a librarian perspective, the RFCs are a document > series. That's a problem insofar as the IETF is perceived > to be a standards body. Certainly in bodies like ETSI > there's an explicit distinction between a "technical > standard" and a "technical report" that I think may > be clearer than the distinctions among IETF standards, > IETF best practices documents, IETF experimental > standards, IETF informational documents, and then > orthogonally the various routes to publication. Is this reallly a problem? Yes, RFCs can be published for a multitude of reasons, but whether a particular RFC is standards track, informational, experimental, historic, etc. is clearly indicated in the rfc index file. --James _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf