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Re: legal consultation (was List moderator action)

John Levine <johnl@ietf.email> Fri, 08 May 2026 17:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: legal consultation (was List moderator action)
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It appears that Rob Wilton (rwilton) <rwilton@cisco.com> said:
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>I think that I'm with the John Levine solution for this one.  Just stick the draft/idea on github and don't publish it to IETF as an ID.  I.e., I think that this is a workable
>solution for what is a very rare exception.

By coincidence, we have a real life example on the DISPATCH list today.  Let's see how it works.

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dispatch/icgwD841UwXIdF1bMmiQeqZQiMY/

R's,
John

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