On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 07:40:02PM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote: > 2. “unpublished” is unclear. At least I consider submitting an I-D to > datatracker as a form of publishing. I think it might be better here to > refer to something like “works in progress”.
Perhaps this is what authors think these days but RFC 2026 makes a clear distinction between 'publish' and 'made available'. See section 2.2 for more details. Uploading a document to a server really is not the same as publishing in the traditional sense (and clearly not for people with an academic background). Yes, uploading some text to a server makes the text publicly accessible (make avaliable in RFC 2016 terms) but there is a big difference between a formally published document in a certain series that exercises some sort of quality control according to the rules of the series and simply making something public. Perhaps we should make it clear that 'publish' is meant in the traditional RFC 2026 sense. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
