On 7/31/07 10:51 AM, "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer(_at_)nic(_dot_)fr> wrote:
If an I-D is reviewed by several persons in the WG, one AD, two
members of IESG, etc, then, yes, it costs money but such an in-depth
review does not happen for random student-published I-D.
There is still no cost to the IETF, since review time is volunteer
time. The costs are for the secretariat, since someone has to extract
the attachments or retrieve the drafts, get them into the database,
keep the systems up and running, etc.
That said, I think the idea of charging for draft publication is
ghastly. Incentives matter, and structures that encourage more
openness are better than structures that discourage more openness.
Melinda
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