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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 22:30 UTC

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On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:54, todd glassey wrote:
> 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??? 

Nothing, and nothing should.

That's known as "participating in the IETF standards process".

							- Bill










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