note that there's a difference between 'understanding the. joke' and 'finding it funny'. if you understand the joke, but don't find it at all funny, it's entirely possible that you wrote it. Lloyd Wood http://about.me/lloydwood ________________________________________ From: ietf [ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Murray S. Kucherawy [superuser@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 05 March 2014 08:05 To: Abdussalam Baryun Cc: SM; iab@xxxxxxx; ietf Subject: Re: Call for Review of draft-iab-styleguide-01.txt, "RFC Style Guide" On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambaryun@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:abdussalambaryun@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: The draft should consider reader styles then present author styles and then RFC best practice style. I don't think the funny RFC is a best practice style. In a different thread you made some claims about the reason IETF attendance dropped off after 2000-2002. I think if the IETF and the RFC Editor function were compelled to become so rigid that we can no longer safely reminisce or laugh at ourselves in sometimes visible ways, you'll see it drop again. I think it's fine that some people aren't in on the joke. Getting there is a form of education; if you do the work to understand the joke, you'll be better off, and then you can laugh with us. In any case, I agree with SM's point that this has little if anything to do with the style guide. -MSK