The RFC Production Center and Publisher are starting to see the annual surge of incoming submissions as a result of post-holiday productivity and impending Area Director turnover at the March IETF meeting. While the editors are focused on the new documents, the new RFC Series Editor is getting started. Many thanks go out to Olaf Kolkman, Acting RSE, for his work in helping keep the RFC Series running and in aiding the new RSE in understanding some of the critical issues that have been waiting for a more permanent RSE to join.

Current projects underway: bringing the RFC Style Guide up to date, updating RFC Editor website content

The RFC Production Center concluded 2011 with the second highest number of RFCs published in a single year in the history of the RFC Series. 390 documents were published through the various streams.

Also in December, the IAB announced the appointment of Heather Flanagan as RFC Series Editor. See the related announcement for more information.

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