* Margaret Wasserman: >>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. If you prepare a derivative work under copyright, it doesn't automatically become an alternative to or replacement of the original standard. Further steps are necessary, and these steps don't really depend on the existence of a modified standard (or any documentation whatsoever). _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf