Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt

[Eric Brunner-Williams <[e-mail]>]

> 
> This begs a question. Being rather new here, I would like to know if the IETF has a process  in place for WGs to obtain  independent legal guidance, rather than just engineers playing at being lawyers ?  

it is sufficient to for the specification to support a scoping
mechanism which may be mapped to jurisdictional bounds on any of
connection formation, query, and response data.

note that historically, attempts to "fix" rfc954 have been had the
feature (or flaw) of asserting that no scope other than global was
necessary or sufficient, though ad hoc limitations on endpoints and
rates of query have been broadly adopted, and one or more limitations
on response data are contained in a registry contract with the party
currently executing the iana contract.

-e