Re: History behind RFC numbers

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On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 03:37:34PM -0800, Melinda Shore wrote:
> On 10/3/14 3:23 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
> > It should be possible to do this as aliases of numbered RFCs.
> 
> More to the point, RFC numbers are identifiers, and what's
> being discussed here is metadata.  And classification.  Which
> is a sort of metadata but also has a structural function.
> Anyway.
> 
> There's an entire field of knowledge that deals with this
> kind of thing.  It's called "librarianship."  That said, I'm

IOW, we need a librarian.

> not convinced there's a problem.  Seems to me that we ought to
> have some sort of token system whereby a document review earns
> a person a token that entitles him or her to <n> comments in rathole
> threads, and they don't get to comment in those threads without
> tokens [not directed at you].

I guess I have enough tokens!

To make this really useful mailman would have to implement this
filtering function.  It might cause participants to do more reviews...





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