The open source community definitely wants to be able to guarantee to its users the ability to take text or code from an IETF standard and use that text or code in derivatives of that standard. Parts of the open source community want to be able to claim that that standard is the real unmodified thing. Other parts of the open source community would be happy changing the name of the work and clearly indicating what it is.
The above paragraph probably also works if you replace "The open source community" with the name of any large Internet-related software or hardware company, such as "Microsoft" of "Cisco". There is a lot to be gained by embracing and extending existing standards and establishing your own defacto standards that are supersets of the originals. But, those defacto standards tend to be detrimental to one of the primary goals of the IETF: interoperablity.
Areas where a discussion might be useful would be to explain why the open source community wants to do this etc.
While it might be interesting to gain this insight into the motivations open source community, I don't know that it would be pertinent to the issue at hand.
A better question to answer would be: Why would allowing the publication of modified or extended IETF standards (by the open source community or others) be good for the Internet?
Margaret
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