+1 Sent from my iPhone On Oct 18, 2013, at 9:52 AM, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I had promised I was through for today, but I just had a wild, > crazy, suggestion that follows on the retirement of the xx99 and > xx00 subseries of RFCs. > > I wonder if we should be publishing, at regular intervals, RFCs > with explicit acknowledgements and maybe contact information for > Areas and ADs, WG Chairs, and, if appropriate, other IETF > functionaries, probably including document reviewers and Nomcom > members. It would provide both a snapshot of what has been > going on and who has been contributing to keeping the process > working that is more permanent/ archival and accessible than a > collection of web pages. It would also provide a type of > formally-published acknowledgement for those sorts of work to > which people and their organizations could point. > > It might have rather high payoff in comparison to the cost of > the bits. And I'd think that most of the data could be pulled > out of existing sources with a few tools and a little > secretariat effort (i.e., little or no additional work for ADs). > > Or maybe I'm missing a serious downside. > > best, > john > >