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

sob@harvard.edu (Scott Bradner) Fri, 18 February 2005 23:16 UTC

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> I have a dumb question - what's to stop anyone from taking an RFC and
> rewriting part of it and re-filing it with the IETF as the next instance in
> that RFC's evolution??? I have seen absolutely nothing in any of the IETF
> process documents that would prohibit this.

maybe because that is specifically permitted

Scott

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