Re: #1400 Opinion poll - question draft

["Joel M. Halpern" <joel at stevecrocker.com>]

I wish your assertion below were true.
I do not believe it is.

At 10:10 PM 12/5/2006, John C Klensin wrote:
>  assert, without taking a position as to whether it is the
> right thing to do, that, with a proper definition of
> "translation", all of the rights needed to strictly implement a
> standard are covered by "copy, extract, distribute, and
> translate" or words to that effect.

Specifically, the easy to see case is when there turns out to be a 
bug in the code in the standard.
Fixing the bug is not "translation."  (A proper translation of a 
sentence with the "wrong" word is not a sentence with the word 
corrected, but a sentence with the same error.)

Unfortunately, I doubt that is the only hole in using "translation" 
to permit the necessary code rights.

Yours,
Joel


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