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Re: [Gendispatch] why the trust is not your lawyer

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 01 November 2022 17:01 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] why the trust is not your lawyer
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2022, Jay Daley wrote:
>> Keeping in mind that I am not your lawyer even more than the Trust is
>> not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice: ...

> That’s excellent information, but it provides yet more evidence to me that information like this needs to recorded in a database so that we don’t have to rely on the memory of individuals and the ability of people to access that memory.

It is a fact that the RFCs have the author names they do and that there is 
a license from ISI in the trust's asset register.  Everything else is not 
information, it's my amateur legal speculation.

As I keep saying, I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.  It 
would be nuts for the IETF to publish legal opinions beyond what is in the 
RFCs that were actually written by our lawyers.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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