Stewart Bryant <stbry...@cisco.com> wrote: > > That is an author centric view. It is far more important to take a > reader centric view.
I must dissent. Reader-centric views belong to publishing entities that generate income (whether by purchase, subscription, or advertising). There have always been book publishers that generate reader-centric interpretations of RFCs. It's expensive to do so; and such publishing entities are careful to evaluate the potential market before producing one. IETF publications produce _no_ income; so we need to minimize the expenses. That leaves us concentrating on the author-centric and editor-centric views. I in no way dispute that other presentations can be "better" for the reader; I only remind folks that we subsidize IETF publications through our meeting fees, and other avenues are always available to publish reader-centric versions. For one simple example, I know of nothing preventing citations of self-published "guides" as Informative References in RFCs. -- John Leslie <j...@jlc.net> _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
