Re: [Idr] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-idr-shutdown-08: (with COMMENT)

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Job,

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Job Snijders <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 05:15:53PM +0200, Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) wrote:
> > Ah, thanks. Wasn’t aware of this. I’m neither a copyright expert.
>
> > Did you try to contact the authors of RFC4486 rather than adding this
> > note?
>
> No. Copy+pasting the note as suggested by the idnits tool seemed less
> work :-)


Having done the same thing, it's less work, THIS time.

The problem is that authors of older RFCs get closer to not being able to
respond to questions every year (many changed e-mail addresses, some
retired, and some, sadly, died), and if you don't check this now, every
time this draft gets a bis, you'll have to decide whether to go chase the
authors or keep cutting and pasting boilerplate that says, essentially,
"we're not actually sure we're allowed to use this text, because the
original authors were never asked the question".

As I understand things, of course.

Spencer, who has a draft in AD Evaluation with an author who has passed on
- his e-mail address still works, but that only irritates his family when
we ask questions like this one ...