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The RSE Project List
Small projects (1-6 months from start)
| Handle | Brief Description | Target start |
| Acronym review | The currently 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 | |
Medium projects (6-18 months from start of project)
| Handle | Brief Description | Target start |
| Archival review | Review of archival process and policy for the Series | |
| AUTH48 changes | can we improve efficiency of AUTH48 process by potentially clarifying policy and implementing new tools to streamline the process? | |
| Errata process review | submitting errata and citing errata is non-trivial and the overall process around the errata service needs to be reviewed | |
| 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. | May 2012 |
| DOI assignment | DOI assignments have been requested for RFCs as a way to improve the scholarly reputation of the Series | |
| Scholarly indexing | RFC are not indexed in online indexes such as: ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar | May 2013 |
| 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) | |
| Statistics and Metrics | look at more effective ways to report on RFC stats and determine if/how this fits in to current SLA | |
| Style Manual RFC | Update of current accepted practice to be published as a new RFC | February 2012 |
| Style Manual web | Creation of proto-policies, guidelines, and flexible pages | May 2012 |
| RFC Editor website | update content, look and feel to the RFC Editor website. | |
Large projects (18+ months)
| Handle | Brief Description | Target start |
| RFC Format | Determine the future of images, character encoding, and archival format | March 2012 |
| New Stream | Determine the criteria and process for adding a new stream to the RFC Series | July 2012 |
Completed Projects/Tasks
| Handle | Brief Description | Notes |
| 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 |
