On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:19:05AM -0700, Dave CROCKER wrote: > First, you lack empirical data to substantiate your assessment of the perception. Well, Wikipedia (which IMO is primarily useful as a repository for finding out what "everyone knows") has this first sentence in its description of the RFC series: > In computer network engineering, a Request for Comments (RFC) is a > memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) > describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to > the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems. The fourth link from Google in response to, "What is an RFC?" says > RFC is an acronym for Request for Comments and official documents from > the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) with an unlimited > distribution. RFC's are numbered in a series and are referred to by > numbers. So even if those pages go on to refine their statements, I don't think it preposterous to suggest that people think "the RFC series" is "from the IETF". I am totally unwilling to have an opinion on whether anyone ought to try to do anything about this, but I don't think we should pretend that the world is otherwise than it is. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf