RFC SERIES OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE (RSOC)
January 11, 2017 RSOC Meeting

Reported by: Cindy Morgan, IETF Secretariat

ATTENDEES
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 Nevil Brownlee
 Heather Flanagan (RSE, non-voting)
 Joel Halpern
 Tony Hansen 
 Joe Hildebrand
 Bob Hinden
 Cindy Morgan (Scribe, non-voting)
 Ray Pelletier (IAOC Liaison, non-voting)
 Adam Roach
 Robert Sparks (Lead)

REGRETS
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 Sarah Banks (Chair)

MINUTES
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0. Review of minutes

  The minutes of the 14 December 2016 RSOC Meeting were approved.

1. Agenda bash

  An item on DOIs was added to the agenda under AOB.

2. Project status

2.1. Format & CSS

  Heather Flanagan reported that the format bids were awarded to Henrik 
  Levkowetz and Sean Leonard. Robert Sparks is the project manager. 
  After some discussion, Ray Pelletier agreed that the IAOC would send 
  out an an announcement that the bids were awarded.

  The developer working on the CSS has been pleased with the quality of 
  the feedback received so far, and is working on a new revision. The 
  developer will meet with Heather Flanagan on Friday to go over some of 
  the issues, and a new version of the CSS is expected in a week or so. 
  Heather noted that she is still looking for sample files, as more 
  samples will make for a better final CSS.

2.2. Digital Preservation

  Heather Flanagan has drafted a blog post about the digital 
  preservation project; she will send the draft to the RSOC for review. 
  The National Library of Sweden is planning a press release in Swedish, 
  but have agreed to have something in English about it on their website 
  that her blog post can point to. Ideally, the blog post and press 
  release will be timed to coincide with the announcement of the 
  community comment period for draft-iab-rfc-preservation.

  Heather Flanagan noted that she has a call with Marc Weber of the 
  Computer History Museum early next week.

3. RPC evaluation

  Heather Flanagan asked the RSOC if there were any further questions or 
  comments on the RPC evaluation before she sends it to the IESG, the I
  AB, the IRSG, the ISE, and twelve random authors that published an RFC 
  in 2016. There were no additional comments from the RSOC.

4. FYI: http://www.stm-assoc.org/jobs/ra21-project-director/

  Heather Flanagan reported that she is planning to bid on a small 
  contract about identity management in scholarly publications. The RSOC 
  had no concerns with this.

5. AOB

5.1. DOIs

  Crossref has published new display guidelines that would require all 
  DOIs to follow the format of https://doi.org/####. This would result a 
  single point for logging what IP addresses are accessing which 
  documents, and that information potentially provides tracking about 
  individual actions that governments might request via their local 
  legal proceedings. There are bigger conversations about the use of 
  this system of identifiers for IoT, and that is being discussed at the 
  ITU. DOIs are useful to a section of the RFC community, and so while 
  the RFC Editor will continue to assign DOIs, they are not going to 
  follow that display format. DOIs will continue, unlinked and in the 
  format "DOI ######" until such time Crossref demands that the RFC 
  Series follow their rules. If it gets to that point, Heather Flanagan 
  proposes that the RFC Series stop using DOIs. This was discussed with 
  the stream managers during IETF 97, and they supported that proposal.

  Joe Hildebrand observed that a statement on why the new display 
  guidelines are harmful might be work for the IAB's Names and 
  Identifiers Program.