Re: Rivest's S-Expressions I-D no longer found

[Michael StJohns <[e-mail]>]

RFC1602 - published March 1994 appears to be the point at which ISOC 
started claiming rights in contributions.  Assuming this was actually a 
November 1997 draft, it would be covered by the contributions language 
and most IPR issues shouldn't apply if someone wanted to get it 
published as an RFC (or reinstated as a draft as below - we really 
should have a copy of this in any case).

All that's the sort of legalistic view.  The polite thing to do would be 
to ask Dr Rivest and MIT to re-post it somewhere somewhat stable as 
suggested elsewhere.

Later. Mike

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On 5/21/2023 6:57 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
> There was a time before when draft copyright was assigned to the ISOC.
>
> I don’t recall the date, but this seems prior.
>
> Joe
>
>> On May 21, 2023, at 1:53 PM, Brian E Carpenter<[e-mail]>  wrote:
>>
>> Is there any reason why draft-rivest-sexp-00.txt cannot be reinstated to the datatracker? This has been done in the past with "lost" I-Ds.
>>
>> Regards
>>    Brian Carpenter
>>
>>> On 22-May-23 06:34, John Levine wrote:
>>> It appears that Marc Petit-Huguenin<[e-mail]>  said:
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>>>> https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt  is no longer reachable.  This is a document I use often in my work so I'd like to have a more stable reference, like an Informational RFC.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any interest in trying to do that?
>>> The Internet Archive says it was last seen over a year ago in January 2022.
>>> I concur with the suggestion to get MIT to resuscitate it, but in the meantime,
>>> here's a copy that's not going away any time soon:
>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20220113221331/https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt
>>> R's,
>>> John