On 10/11/2017 10:02, John Levine wrote:
> 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?
Very few. I'm not sure it will turn out to be such a good decision 100 years
from now - historians often use ephemera of this kind - but that's the
way things are going.
Now that SM has set me straight, I am not suggesting any action
at all.
Brian
>
> 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
>