ISSUE: Document subseries name for IETF Administration

Bob Braden braden at ISI.EDU
Tue Jun 17 10:13:41 CEST 2003


  *> To be sure, there's nothing wrong with assigning a serial number to 
  *> each document, any more than assigning an ISBN to each book published. 
  *> But we don't tend to refer to such works by their ISBNs except in very
  *> specific contexts.  And we do find other kinds of document classification
  *> useful.
  *> 

Keith,

Maybe it would be different if there were a total of about 3500 books
in the ISBN series.

Bob Braden


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