Re: Some thoughts about draft-leiba-3777upd-eligibility-02.txt

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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have one discussion point and a number of small nits...
>
> ...
>
> There are just two points in your comments that I want to pursue:
>
>>       15.2.  People serving in the IETF Secretariat and the RFC Editor
>>            may not volunteer to serve as voting members of the
>>            nominating committee.
>>
>> Slight problem with the term "RFC Editor" since this is a single person
>> and also a service function. I suspect you mean the latter.
>
> I do, and I actually had the same problem with it when I wrote it as
> you do.  So help me, please: How *should* this be put?  I don't like,
> "and those employed in the RFC Editor function," and I really can't
> think of a concise, clean, accurate way to write it down, though we
> all (today) know what it means.  Text, please, someone.

In particular, I believe the there are Editorial Boards that the
various fragments of the RFC Editor appoint and consult which should
not be excluded.

Thanks,
Donald
=============================
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>>    o  In bullet 16, to correct an erratum, the last paragraph is
>>       replaced by this:
>>
>>          One possible selection method is described in RFC 3797 [1].
>>
>> Perfectly correct, but I don't think this document is the place to
>> correct random errata.
>
> I was (and am) ambivalent here.  I did not have this in my first
> version.  SM did.  When we merged the proposals, I thought it was a
> good idea to fix that.  But you're right that it's rather off topic,
> and the right place to do that would be 3777bis, which this decidedly
> is NOT.
>
> I'm inclined to pull it out (having not checked that with SM yet,
> though).  Does anyone (including SM) think it definitely needs to be
> in here?
>
> Barry


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