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Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 12 May 2011 00:05 UTC

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Paradoxically, I-Ds do already include a similar statement:

    The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
    http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt.

    The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
    http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.

Pity we don't include that sort of thing in the RFCs too...

Joe

On 5/9/2011 5:05 PM, Steve Crocker wrote:
> A simpler and more pragmatic approach is to include a statement in the boilerplate of every RFC that says, "RFCs are available free of charge online from ..."
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> The copyright rules would prohibit anyone from removing this statement.  If someone pays $47 for a copy and then reads this statement, he is unlikely to pay $47 again.
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