Hi Mike,
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 3:19 PM Mike StJohns <mstjohns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jon was the RFC editor during the production of RFC 1358 and RFC 1601, and he was also on the IAB as a member, then as IRTF chair, then as RFC Editor Liaison, basically from 1990-1998. It's hard to credit that he did not read and comment on those documents in one of those two roles.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 1:39 PM Randy Bush <randy@xxxxxxx> wrote:For those who have not had to look it all up recently, the IAB's role here has evolved as the RFC Editor model has evolved, but the appointment function goes back to at least RFC 1358 (see section 8) in 1992. That was adjusted slightly in RFC 1601 when NomCom appointments were introduced (the RFC Editor text is in Section 2, subsection d) in 1994. It was also described in RFC 2850, (again in Section 2 d) in 2000. All of the updates which relate to looking at the series as a set of streams are in the RFC model documents (RFC 5620 and RFC 6635) whose initial publication was in 2009 and update in 2012.
Just because the IAB said it was so, doesn’t mean it was true.
The documents through RFC 2850 all predate the split into streams, so even RFC 2850 has to be read as the RFC Series having this text, rather than it being an assertion of the IAB alone within its own stream. I will leave it to Brian, who authored RFC 2850, to discuss the extent to which it was a community document, but I do note it is a BCP.
Ted Hardie
