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RFC SERIES OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE (RSOC)
September 12, 2013 RSOC Teleconference

Reported by: Cindy Morgan, IETF Secretariat

ATTENDEES 
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Bernard Aboba
Nevil Brownlee
Heather Flanagan, RFC Series Editor
Joel Halpern
Tony Hansen
Alexey Melnikov, RSOC Chair
Cindy Morgan, Scribe

REGRETS
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Joe Hildebrand
Bob Hinden
Ray Pelletier, IAOC Liaison

MINUTES
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0. Administrivia

An agenda item on "Boilerplate" as added to the agenda as item 5.

The minutes of the 27 July 2013 RSOC Retreat and the 14 August 2013 RSOC 
Teleconference were approved and will be posted on the IAB website.

1. Submissions and Publications

1.1. Monthly Queue Report

Heather Flanagan noted that the report showing status changes by month 
is currently sent to the IAB, IAD, IAOC, IESG, IRTF Chair, and 
Independent Submission Editor.  She asked if this report would be useful 
the RSOC as well.  The RSOC agreed that monthly RSE Report with the SLAs 
is more useful to the RSOC, and so the RSOC chose not to receive the 
Monthly Queue Report. 

Heather Flanagan asked if the Monthly Queue Report is useful to the IAB.   
Joel Halpern replied that the IAB may also find more use from the SLA 
report.  Alexey Melnikov took the action to ask the IAB whether they 
would like to continue to receive the Monthly Queue Report.

1.2. Current Publication Trends

Heather Flanagan reported that it currently looks like fewer documents 
will be published this year than were last year.  Heather reported that 
the reason for this is that fewer documents have been sent to the RFC 
Editor by the IESG.

2. RFC Format Design Team

2.1. Progress to Date

Heather Flanagan reported that the RFC Format Design Team continues to 
work actively.  After an early miscommunication, Robert Sparks has been 
added as a liaison from the IETF Tools Team to the RFC Format Design 
Team. 

2.2. Images and Accessibility

The IESG is currently discussing whether images should be considered 
normative or informative, but consensus has not been reached yet.  The 
IESG has asked Heather Flanagan for a presentation that outlines the 
issues around accessibility with making images normative.  Bernard Aboba 
noted that the University of Wisconsin has several experts on 
accessibility that may be able to help with this, and volunteered to 
broker an introduction for Heather.

2.3. BoF at IETF 88

Heather Flanagan reported that she is planning to propose a BOF at IETF 
88 to discuss RFC tool requirements.

3. RPC and Internationalization

Heather Flanagan reported that Peter-Saint Andre is planning to repeat 
the half-day tutorial that was presented to the RPC on 
internationalization, unicode, and UTF-8 in Berlin, as the entire RPC 
staff will be at IETF 88 in Vancouver.

4. Other updates and interesting issues

4.1. RPC and Publisher SoWs

Heather Flanagan reported that the IAOC currently has the RPC and 
Publisher SOWs for comments.

4.2. Transfer of Copyright for Federal Contractor Authors

Heather Flanagan reported that there is an outstanding question about 
transferring copyright when document authors are federal contractors.  
Heather is planning a meeting with Scott Bradner of the IETF Trust to 
discuss the issue.

4.3. Digital Object Identifiers

Heather Flanagan reported that John Levine is revising his proposal on 
Digital Object Identifiers to include information about the RFC info 
pages on the RFC Editor website.

4.4. International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical
     Publishers Seminars on Publishing Industry Trends and Electronic
     Publishing Issues

Heather Flanagan asked the RSOC if it would make sense for her to attend  
upcoming seminars on publishing industry trends and electronic 
publishing issues being planned by the International Association of 
Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (http://www.stm-assoc.org/).  
The RSOC agreed that Heather should attend.

5. Boilerplate

Heather Flanagan reported that the RFC Editor and the IESG are having an 
ongoing discussion about additional boilerplate options for IETF-stream 
document.  Heather asked how that would be handled.  Joel Halpern 
responded that the IESG should ask the IAB, who is in charge of 
boilerplate text.  Adding additional boilerplate options may require an 
update to RFC 5741.  Heather will follow up with the IESG to make sure 
that the question gets posed to the IAB.