On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Eliot Lear wrote:
Mike,
Are you suggesting that the ISOC pull RFC Editor funding and invest in
another series where the community has more say? Otherwise one person
can override the will of the community, as Jon did on more than one
occasion. I don't think we want that any more. I certainly don't.
No we don't want that, but we also don't want RFC Editor as directly
part IETF structure or answerable to it for everything it does.
I think there is a middle ground that can exist - a contract between
IAOC representing IETF and ISI representing RFC Editor where RFC Editor
agrees to publish documents submitted to it by IETF (i.e. they'll not
be able to say no to IETF request to publish document even if RFC Editor
believes its not ready) and for that RFC Editor receives a funding for
its operations (which includes ability to publish documents that did not
go through IETF process).
Such contract can in itself be considered as describing RFC Editor
operations as they relate to IETF and be published as an RFC. But it
would not be an exclusive description of all that RFC Editor does.
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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