* Margaret Wasserman: > While I am most definitely not a lawyer, it is my understanding that > it is permissible to quote from copyrighted works as long as they are > properly referenced. I don't think that we should stop people from > quoting (and referencing) RFCs, but we should stop people from > producing modified and/or extended versions of the original. In some standardization efforts, it's customary to update standards by issuing a diff to that standards: "in section 5.2, after the word "interoperability", insert the words 'and efficiency'". This is worst possible case: We have a technical description that is very hard to understand, and the ISOC copyright failed to prevent the creation of a competing standard. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf