2018-03-22-rsoc-minutes
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RFC SERIES OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE (RSOC)
March 22, 2018 RSOC Meeting

Reported by: Cindy Morgan, IETF Secretariat

ATTENDEES
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 Sarah Banks (Chair) (via WebEx)
 Nevil Brownlee
 Heather Flanagan (RSE, non-voting)
 Joel Halpern
 Tony Hansen (via WebEx)
 Bob Hinden
 Cindy Morgan (Scribe, non-voting)
 Adam Roach
 Robert Sparks (Lead) (via WebEx)
 Martin Thomson
 Portia Wenze-Danley (IAOC Liaison, non-voting)

GUEST
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 Alice Russo, RPC

MINUTES
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1. Administrivia

  The minutes of the 20 February 2018 RSOC meeting were approved.

2.  Agenda bash

  Heather Flanagan noted that an item on the increasing number of pages 
  on IESG telechats will be discussed under the SLA check-in item.

3. SLA check-in

  Heather Flanagan reported that the RPC has been operating in Tier 1 
  for the past two quarters, and making the SLA.

  Adam Roach said that he is not sure if the influx of drafts on IESG 
  telechats right before IETF 101 is a global trend or if it was the 
  regular AD-turnover cycle surge. He expects that the surge of pages on 
  the IESG telechats should subside by the end of April; if it has not, 
  then there is a more global trend. He also noted that Cluster 238 is 
  down to 11 documents, only one of which has not made it past Working 
  Group Last Call yet.

  Heather Flanagan observed that this is a perfect storm of events as 
  the RPC trains an editor to cover for Sandy Ginoza while she is on 
  maternity leave and testing on the new format tools begins. 

4. Format Update

  Heather Flanagan reported that she is reasonably content with how the 
  format work is progressing. Several tools are currently being tested. 
  She expects to be on stage at the plenary in Montreal to update the 
  community about this.

  Heather Flanagan noted that all of the streams plan to roll out the v3 
  features all at once. 

5. Style Guide and I-Ds

  Heather Flanagan reported that the RSAG had a conversation about how 
  to refer to work that is still in progress. Heather suggested calling 
  them "Internet-Drafts"; several people on the RSOC agreed that that 
  makes sense. 

  Robert Sparks asked how references to work in progress is handled for 
  other SDOs. Heather Flanagan replied that the RFC Editor uses the 
  other SDO's terminology for work in progress in such cases.

  There was consensus to refer to IETF works in progress as "Internet-
  Drafts." Heather Flanagan reported that Adam Roach is working on an 
  IETF-stream document to note this change.

6. DOI and Sub-series

  Heather Flanagan noted that the RFC Series does not use DOIs the same 
  way that the publishing community does, so she does not see the value 
  in making the tool changes necessary to add DOIs for sub-series when 
  there is already a DOI for the RFC itself. The RSOC agreed with 
  Heather's assessment.

7. GDPR update

  Heather Flanagan reported that the RFC Editor is covered under the 
  legitimate interest section of GDPR, and there are already industry 
  norms for this. She would like to add some text to the RFC Editor 
  website to explain how GDPR affects the RFC Editor; Joel Halpern 
  asked her to make sure the text was reviewed by legal counsel before 
  being published online. 

8. Independent Submission Stream update

  Martin Thomson reported that the IAB discussed the Independent 
  Submission Stream earlier this week but did not reach any conclusions. 
  The IAB will continue their discussion at the IAB retreat at the end 
  of April.

9. Executive Session: RPC Evaluation

  The RPC evaluation was discussed in an executive session.