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For current information, please see the RFC Editor website or RPC wiki.
Priority | Handle | Brief Description | Target start |
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C | Acronym review | The current list of approved acronyms (one that do not need to be expanded in RFC) needs to be reviewed and brought up to date or entirely discarded | |
A | Fifty Years of RFCs | RFC to document and other announcements in relation to the fiftieth anniversary of RFC 1 | September 2018 |
Priority | Handle | Brief Description | Target start |
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A | AUTH48 changes | can we improve efficiency of AUTH48 process by potentially clarifying policy and implementing new tools to streamline the process? | |
B | Errata process review | submitting errata and citing errata is non-trivial and the overall process around the errata service needs to be reviewed | |
C | Scholarly indexing | RFC are not indexed in online indexes such as: ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore | |
C | Short-lived references | some references might not be long-lived enough from an archival perspective, and as a result, the RFC Editor may need to keep an archival copy; need to understand potential copyright and distribution issues (work in progress on this, prior to RSE appointment) | |
B | Citation Library Updates | Formalize RFC Editor support of the citation library | |
A | Customer Satisfaction Survey experiment | Develop a new survey process to evaluate the RPC |
Priority | Handle | Brief Description | Target start |
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A | RFC Format | Determine the future of images, character encoding, and archival format | March 2012 |
B | EFL Author support | Work with RPC, community to find ways to support EFL authors more effectively | ongoing |
B | Infrastructure/Data Accessibility | Review the overall architecture behind the editing and publication process for the RFC Editor, and refactor the environment | ongoing |
B | Outreach | Create an outreach plan for the RFC Editor | ongoing |
References as metadata | Discuss with RPC, community potential value/cost of turning RFC references in to metadata that would be periodically updated (without republishing the RFC) | ||
Outsourcing XML review | Should the review of the XML file be outsourced? | ||
Understanding the role of metadata in digital preservation | Review of digital preservation policy and existing RFC metadata | ||
Search response improvements | Providing additional context to search returns, e.g., pointers to WG | ||
Create an experimental space for RFC formats or features | Consider having a place to test new formats or features for RFCs | ||
RFC Source Code Repository | Research issues around the creation of a source code repository for the RFC Series | ||
EU-ISA | Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) and the RFC Series |
Handle | Brief Description | Notes |
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ISSN | what would it take to change the metadata recorded in an ISSN to move it from Publisher - IETF Trust to RFC Editor; is this a significant enough change to require the ISSN to change, and if so, what are the consequences to that change, are there financial/reputational costs? Is this a necessary change? | ISSN updated 8-March-2012 |
Derivitive Works Clause | bug in the publication of an unknown number of RFC; make sure bug is on record, process is updated for a visual check that RFC do not publish with mutually exclusive derivitive clause language (ie RFC 5728), and determine how many RFC this impacts. | impacts only 1 RFC |
Copyright | update the info on the copyright page | Page updated 14-Feb-2012 |
Author Overload | guidance required on number and categories of contributors to an RFC. | Policy doc withdrawn |
New Stream | Determine the criteria and process for adding a new stream to the RFC Series | Proposal submitted by the ISE to have new stream docs go through the Independent Submissions stream (see wiki page) |
Review of RFC Publisher function | the RFC Publisher must be a self-contained entity, capable of being moved independent of Production Center; find out where the tools and processes exist that interfere with that independence. | Documentation prepared and reviewed at IETF 88 |
Style Manual RFC | Update of current accepted practice to be published as a new RFC | revised style guide approved for publication April 2014 |
Style Manual web | Creation of proto-policies, guidelines, and flexible pages | |
Scholarly indexing | RFC are now properly indexed in Google Scholar | August 2014 |
DOI assignment | DOI assignments have been requested for RFCs as a way to improve the scholarly reputation of the Series | DOIs added April 2015 |
RFC Editor website | update content, look and feel to the RFC Editor website. | New site published October 2015 |
Statistics and Metrics | automating stats reporting | moved into production in July 2016 |
Digital Signatures | digitally signing RFCs | project shelved due to concerns re: revocation October 2016 |
Digital Archive Policy | develop framework for how to handle digital preservation | two partnerships (National Library of Sweden, Computer History Museum) in place; RFC 8153 published |