RFC1602 - published March 1994 appears
to be the point at which ISOC started claiming rights in
contributions. Assuming this was actually a November 1997 draft,
it would be covered by the contributions language and most IPR
issues shouldn't apply if someone wanted to get it published as an
RFC (or reinstated as a draft as below - we really should have a
copy of this in any case).
All that's the sort of legalistic
view. The polite thing to do would be to ask Dr Rivest and MIT to
re-post it somewhere somewhat stable as suggested elsewhere.
Later. Mike
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On 5/21/2023 6:57 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
There was a time before when draft copyright was assigned to the ISOC. I don’t recall the date, but this seems prior. JoeOn May 21, 2023, at 1:53 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Is there any reason why draft-rivest-sexp-00.txt cannot be reinstated to the datatracker? This has been done in the past with "lost" I-Ds. Regards Brian CarpenterOn 22-May-23 06:34, John Levine wrote: It appears that Marc Petit-Huguenin <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=- https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt is no longer reachable. This is a document I use often in my work so I'd like to have a more stable reference, like an Informational RFC. Is there any interest in trying to do that?The Internet Archive says it was last seen over a year ago in January 2022. I concur with the suggestion to get MIT to resuscitate it, but in the meantime, here's a copy that's not going away any time soon: https://web.archive.org/web/20220113221331/https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt R's, John
