Thanks Harald, and also to the others who responded. It appears I was mistaken in saying that I had never seen the statement beginning:
"This document and the information contained herein...",
since the same text appears in some of my own documents. However, I don't recall ever seeing it prefaced with a section heading such as: "Disclaimer of Validity".
([RFC 3667], section 5.5) just says that the statement is: "(Normally placed at the end of the IETF Document after the copyright notice.)", i.e., it doesn't say anything about adding a "Disclaimer of Validity" section heading.
I'm still a bit puzzled by what "Disclaimer of Validity" could mean, .e.g., could it mean that everything that appears in the document before it is "invalid"? Would appreciate clarification on this.
Thanks - Fred ftemplin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
--On 20. mai 2004 17:35 -0700 Fred Templin <ftemplin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Disclaimer of Validity
This document and the information contained herein are provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
I have never seen such a statement appearing in an I-D before. Is this a standard statement for such procedural documents? And, is the intention that it be removed (by the RFC editor, I guess) before publishing as BCP?
Inserted by xml2rfc. See RFC 3667 section 5.5 - this notice should appear in all IETF documents.
Harald
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