On 2008-05-22 07:20, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Ray Pelletier wrote:
>> ...
>> The Trust believes there are advantages to indentifying the RFC Series 
>> with an ISSN.  Among them,
>> 1. Make reference to the series compact and globally unique;
>> ...
> 
> More compact than <urn:ietf:rfc:nnnn>?

Possibly not, but there is still a crusty old world of academic
publications with traditional reference styles out there, and an ISSN
will make it much more straightforward to cite RFCs in peer-reviewed
publications. +1 that it's a no-brainer.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter
   University of Auckland


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