>IANAL, and I'm only following about 10% of this thread, but the >phrase "fair use" does not appear in RFC 5378. Maybe it should. Fair use is specific to the U.S. Most other countries have similar legal concepts under other names like fair dealing, but they all differ in minor ways. This would run us into the swamp of what legal system we're subject to. I do have to say that this whole argument seems awfully hypothetical to me. No sensible person will ever sue for his text being reused from an RFC, non-sensible people will sue no matter what we do. Regards, John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf