RFC SERIES OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE (RSOC) January 11, 2017 RSOC Meeting Reported by: Cindy Morgan, IETF Secretariat ATTENDEES --------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- Sarah Banks (Chair) MINUTES --------------------------------- 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.