Re: Question about BCP 14 / RFC 8174

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon=40josefsson.org@dmarc.ietf.org>, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Subject: Re: Question about BCP 14 / RFC 8174
Thread-Topic: Question about BCP 14 / RFC 8174
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* Perhaps the restriction to IETF-only was unintentional.



No, it was almost definitely intentional. If other organizations want to pick up BCP 14 that’s for them to decide.