Re: Proposed New Note Well

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Mon, 04 January 2016 21:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: Proposed New Note Well
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+1

The only thing that made me wonder is the fuzzy scope of "the discussion" in bullet #2; is that discussion specifically covered by that patent, or the whole draft, or the whole WG, or...?

Cheers,


> On 5 Jan 2016, at 2:41 am, IESG Secretary <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> The IESG and the IAOC legal team have worked together to propose a new version for the note well that is used in various IETF activities. The intent is to make the note well shorter and more readable, and point more clearly to the full documentation of the various rules.
> 
> The current note well is available at https://www.ietf.org/about/note-well.html and the proposed new one is below.
> 
> The IESG will make a decision about this matter shortly. Please provide comments, if any, to ietf@ietf.org or to the IESG at iesg@ietf.org before January 30, 2016.
> 
> ———
> 
> Note Well
> 
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