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

Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Wed, 23 February 2005 05:34 UTC

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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@sun.com>
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On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 10:44 -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 10:23, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > > 2) permit the IETF to use the text and then make further
> > > modifications as part of future standards work.
> > 
> > Nice, this is the equivalent of the GPL licence, but for standards and
> > not for programs.
> 
> it's simply another way to describe part of our current requirement
> that modified works only be produced through the IETF standards process.

No. The requirements for something to be considered an IETF standard are
quite strict, and not always appropriate for certain use cases. I agree
that it should be possible for every modified RFC to be turned into an
IETF draft, but I don't agree this would be appropriate in every case.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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