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Re: draft-bradner-rfc-extracts-00 and the risk of "false RFCs"

Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@sun.com> Sat, 19 February 2005 03:40 UTC

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From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@sun.com>
To: Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>
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On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 21:11, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > the people most likely to be harmed by an unofficial RFC would be
> > the ones who would not know how to check the signature.
> 
> Are such people even capable of writing software that actually
> conforms to an RFC?

you have an unrealistically narrow view of the target audience of IETF
documents.



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