On Tue, 1 Mar 2022, Mark Nottingham wrote:
I'm uncomfortable leaving change control for a key interoperability mechanism in the search market in the hands of one competitor, yet blessing it as part of the IETF stream. I think the IETF as a whole should be uncomfortable with that too, given current competition enforcement trends.
The main author is Martijn Koster who invented robots.txt in 1996.
I see in Google's blog that they want it to be an Internet Standard, which
is of course not compatible with a "no derivatives" license. So I concur
with the advice that they need to change the license.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/07/rep-id
Still think they should take out <CODE BEGINS> on the examples.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxxx, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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