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Re: Rivest's S-Expressions I-D no longer found

Marc Petit-Huguenin <marc@petit-huguenin.org> Sun, 21 May 2023 16:55 UTC

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Hi,

You are right, that seems easier so I'll try that.

Thanks.

On 5/21/23 09:31, John C Klensin wrote:
> Marc,
> 
> IANAL, but I would assume that publication as in Informational
> RFC, with all of the IPR issues and permissions that go with it,
> would require explicit permission from Rivest and/or MIT.  It
> might be far easier for you to reach out to him, point out that
> it has disappeared, and request/suggest a more stable location
> and URL for this important paper.  MIT is certainly able to do
> that, usually honors requests from Institute Professors unless
> there is strong reason not to, and the work required would be a
> note from you to him and a note from him to the powers-that-be,
> not the rather tedious process required to get an Informational
> RFC organized and published.
> 
>    john
> 
> 
> --On Sunday, May 21, 2023 06:28 -0700 Marc Petit-Huguenin
> <marc@petit-huguenin.org> wrote:
> 
>> https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt is no longer
>> reachable.  This is a document I use often in my work so I'd
>> like to have a more stable reference, like an Informational
>> RFC.
>>
>> Is there any interest in trying to do that?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> P.S.:  I attached my copy of that document.  Thanks to Zotero
>> for making the Web a little less annoying.
> 

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