Re: draft-bradner-rfc-extracts-00.txt

Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@sun.com> Mon, 21 February 2005 23:53 UTC

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On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 21:53, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> Why is this a concern? There is currently nothing preventing 1000
> different documents from claiming to define any given standard. It would
> make more sense to ensure that only one document can claim to be the
> IETF standard for a given protocol. Once that's possible, there's no
> harm in allowing standards documents to be modified as much as people
> desire.

I fail to see the harm in requiring folks redistributing modified standards
documents to 1) notify the IETF that they're doing so 2) permit the IETF to 
use the text and then make further modifications as part of future standards work.  

						- Bill



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