Re: Rights in early RFCs

["Paul Hoffman" <[e-mail]>]

On 14 Jun 2019, at 16:14, Scott Bradner wrote:

>> On Jun 14, 2019, at 7:06 PM, John C Klensin <[e-mail]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> There were several later rounds of conversations about the
>> general topic on which Scott Bradber would be m8ch more expert
>> than I am, but I'd be surprised if the answer from him would be
>> significantly different from the above.
>
> It is not
>
> but I do have a question for John Levine - what is the context of your 
> question?
>
> republish? produce a revision? ???

Oddly, I can answer that one. Some people quite outside the IETF want to 
publish a spec for how to do $foo over the Internet. Their spec quotes 
small parts of various RFCs to make the requirements clear for the 
vendors who will implement $foo because those vendors do not normally 
use IETF standards. They were unsuccessful in finding how to get 
permission to quote from RFCs, and by circuitous route got to me. I 
passed them along to the IETF Trust, and that's where John's message 
originates. (Side-note: they didn't know who Jon Postel was or how to 
reach him to ask about getting the right to quote RFC 768. I had to 
break that news to them...)

--Paul Hoffman