[LINK] The RFC process
stephen at melbpc.org.au
stephen at melbpc.org.au
Mon Apr 13 03:25:56 AEST 2009
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5540
>
> o Funding of the RFC Editor, which had been supported by the US
> government until 1998, was taken over by the Internet Society.
>
> During 1998-2006, ISOC funded the RFC Editor under a series of
> annual contracts and extensions. ISOC put the function out for
> competitive bid for 2007 (USC/ISI was selected to provide RFC
> Editor services from 2007-2009) and the contract will be put out
> to bid again for post-2009.
>
> During 2009 there will be a significant transition for the RFC
> Editor function, as some new organization or set of organizations
> takes over this service that has been performed at USC/ISI
> continuously since 1978.
Hazardous waters maybe (MS/bigG/RedHat?) despite the safeguards in place
> o Many improvements have increased the efficiency and transparency
> of the RFC editorial process [RFCed09].
>
> o The RFC Editor formed an RFC Editorial Board, a group of people
> with broad and deep knowledge of the Internet and networking. One
> of its major functions is to assist the RFC Editor by reviewing
> RFCs in the Independent Submission stream.
>
> o An email list, rfc-interest at rfc-editor.org, was created to
> obtain community input on the RFC Editor functions.
>
>
> RFC Editor Informational [Page 2]
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> RFC 5540 40th Anniversary 7 April 2009
>
Cheers,
Stephen
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