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Re: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 14 December 2010 10:26 UTC

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To: "Dearlove, Christopher (UK)" <Chris.Dearlove@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft
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On 14.12.2010 10:57, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote:
> I would not consider that a link to Wikipedia is ever appropriate in an
> IETF draft. If it were, then an exact date and time would need to be
> included in the reference, but I'd be unhappy even with that. (This is
> not for copyright reasons.)
> ...

Out of curiosity, and because there may be drafts in the pipeline having 
links like that...: for which reasons?

(I see why we wouldn't want to cite anything *normatively* there, so you 
don't need to explain that part...)

Best regards, Julian

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