Melinda,
I was trying to avoid weighing in on this discussion.
The discussion is essentially inane, and that's (at least
part of) your point. After all, the thought that someone
might be asked to work on an ID, and then - in addition to
volunteering their time to do the work - they then need to
pay (per iteration) for the privilege of submitting it is
utterly absurd.
The whole idea of taxing volunteers is, as you said,
ghastly.
But - while we're on the subject of volunteering - your
comment that reviews are at "no cost to the IETF" isn't quite
correct. As a well-known SciFi author used to say -
"there ain't no such thing as a free lunch"
- (or TANSTAAFL). The effort to find sufficient volunteers
to review documents is not a "no cost" exercise.
--
Eric Gray
Principal Engineer
Ericsson
-----Original Message-----
From: Melinda Shore [mailto:mshore(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:02 AM
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer; Thierry Ernst
Cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Charging I-Ds
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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