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Re: Rights in early RFCs

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 15 June 2019 00:36 UTC

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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:36:22 -0400
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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Rights in early RFCs
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> You didn't identify you "we" was in your question but, if the
> answer is, e.g., the IETF Trust, good luck and this is why we
> pay you folks the big bucks.

Yeah, we're trying to see if we can come up with some guidance for other 
organizations that want to use RFCs, apropos of a request from a SDO in a 
completely different industry that uses IP protocols in some internal
protocols.

I'm sure you can see why "Jon told me 20 years ago that it was OK" is not 
going to impress their lawyers, but if that's all we've got, that's all 
we've got.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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