Ian Hickson wrote:
...The WHATWG submitted the document to the IETFI don't think that's an accurate portrayal of anything that has occurred, unless you mean the way my commit script uploads any changes to the draft to the tools.ietf.org scripts. That same script also submits the varous documents generated from that same source document to the W3C and WHATWG source version control repositories....
By submitting an Internet Draft according to BCP 78 you grant the IETF certain rights; it's not relevant whether it was a script or yourself using a browser or a MUA who posted it.
You may want to check <http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp78#section-5.3>. Best regards, Julian PS: and yes, IANAL
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