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

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Tue, 10 May 2011 01:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793
From: Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 17:35:11 -0700
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+1

The elegance and simplicity of this is quite nice.

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Dave Crocker
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Steve Crocker <steve@shinkuro.com> 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 ..." 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. Steve_____________________________________________
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