Jeff,
The RFC Editor function is the subject of a contract, paid for and
issued by the Internet Society on behalf of the IETF. The IAB, which
I chaired until 2 weeks ago, by its latest charter "must approve the
appointment of an organization to act as RFC Editor and the general
policy followed by the RFC Editor."
The current contractor is the Information Sciences Institute of the
University of Southern California, where the late Jon Postel worked.
There is no individual human acting as RFC Editor; it's a team effort
at ISI.
The charter never got written; it was on Jon's to do list when he passed
away. But of course there is a statement of work in the ISOC contract,
and a member of the RFC Editor team reports at each IETF meeting.
You can see the current status of the RFC Editor's queue at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/queue.html
Brian Carpenter
Jeff(_dot_)Hodges(_at_)kingsmountain(_dot_)com wrote:
I found the following in rfc2028..
2.1 The Request for Comments Editor
The RFC publication series [B] is managed by an Editor (which may in
practice be one or more individuals) responsible both for the
mechanics of RFC publication and for upholding the traditionally
high technical and editorial standards of the RFC series.
The functions of the RFC Editor are performed by one or more
individuals or organizations selected in accordance with the
procedures defined by the RFC Editor charter [G].
And [G] is simply..
[G] RFC Editor Charter, Work in Progress.
..and perusal with various search engines/tools yields no further information
about "RFC Editor Charter", and rfc2028 was written in late 1996.
randy(_at_)psg(_dot_)com said:
brought to you by most of the same folk it has been for years
Well, uh, besides Joyce Reynolds, I'm curious as to who all are actively
contributing to that role. Is it folks on the IAB? Is it folks at IANA (and,
uh, who zactly these days is affiliated with IANA besides the well-known
board? who're the doers?)? Is it just anybody at ISI? Is it part of being on
the IESG being an AD? Is it WG chairs? Who gets to decide?
How is it presently decided who may participate in acting in the RFC-Editor
role?
I'm just sorta curious cuz it seems to be an opaque object in the otherwise
fairly well-defined works (of the IETF et al).
thanks,
JeffH