In article <46991942-1e08-cb7a-3777-4cb4f11ff0fb@xxxxxxxxx> you write: >> We look forward to closing our print version and launching ourselves fully into the digital world in 2018. > >However, BCP 9/RFC 2026 section 6.1.3 states that: > >> An official summary of standards actions completed and pending shall >> appear in each issue of the Internet Society's newsletter. This >> shall constitute the "publication of record" for Internet standards >> actions. > >When the IETF Journal started, it took over as the medium for this requirement. >Are we happy that this will become an on-line only publication? Do any libraries actually keep paper newsletters any more? Down the road at Cornell University which has a well regarded engineering school, they closed the engineering library, moved the paper books to the storage annex, and the space is now a largely book-free reading room. It has public wifi which is on the Cornell network so you get access to all of the online material to which Cornell subscribes. Even when all the books were there, I spent far more time looking at online material than at the old paper journals. R's, John