Re: RFC 2026 interpretation question

["TS Glassey" <tglassey at earthlink.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John C Klensin" <john-ietf at jck.com>
To: "Olaf Kolkman" <olaf at NLnetLabs.nl>; "Bob Braden" <braden at ISI.EDU>
Cc: <presnick at qualcomm.com>; <lisa at osafoundation.org>; <tony at att.com>; 
<sob at harvard.edu>; <ietf at ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: RFC 2026 interpretation question


> --On Friday, 03 October, 2008 14:39 +0200 Olaf Kolkman
> <olaf at NLnetLabs.nl> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 2, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Bob Braden wrote:
> >
> > > The RFC Editor continues to publish STD 1 online, updated
> > > daily. And we recently published a "periodic" version as an
> > > RFC, over some people's dead bodies, I might add.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure wether you refer to:
> >
> > http://www.iab.org/documents/iabmins/iabmins.2008-04-16.html#3
> >
> > But the reference seems relevant to the thread.
>
> This is an interesting conclusion, since this "Informational"
> and "Independent Stream" document is identified in RFC 2026 as
> _the_ authority on the status of various documents wrt the
> standards track.
>
> That interesting conclusion would transition to being fairly
> humorous if the IESG, pursuant to its interpretation of RFC
> 3932, were to ask (or insist) that the RFC Editor include a
> statement, either inline or by reference, that asserted that the
> IETF had not reviewed the document and disclaimed any knowledge
> for its fitness for any purpose.

This opens the IETF to litigation based on its 'intentionally looking the 
other way' since this will also effect patentability of the IP produced.

> In deference to a recent note received off list, I will not
> explain on-list where this reasoning takes us, nor suggest what
> needs to be done about it.  I will not...  I will not...
>
>    john
>
>
>
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