RFC SERIES OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE (RSOC) March 22, 2018 RSOC Meeting Reported by: Cindy Morgan, IETF Secretariat ATTENDEES --------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- Alice Russo, RPC MINUTES --------------------------------- 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.