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

Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@sun.com> Fri, 18 February 2005 20:08 UTC

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On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 13:40, Lawrence Rosen wrote:

> There is no threat to anyone from modification of
> RFC documents after they are published, 

I don't think that's supportable; the threats posed by carelessly or
maliciously modified RFC's include at the very least end user 
confusion and failure of interoperability.  

The latter is particularly offensive to the core values of long term 
IETF participants.

						- Bill




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