I'm very much in favor of doing the proposed I-D boilerplate
compactification in some way, getting rid of OBE material,
and making all that pending headers and boilerplate changes
at a single cutoff date!
But if and when changing anything in the I-D boilerplate ...
could you please also drop in the missing article in the very first
sentence of "Status of this Memo":
vvvvv
This Internet-Draft is submitted to the IETF in full conformance
with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.
Regarding the discussion on IETFers and non-IETFers, I would
like to add:
Since there's no concept of formal membership for the IETF,
anyone making use of the IETF's I-D publication process arguably
becomes a "participant" in the IETF. I-D authors are donating
IPR on the submitted material to the IETF Trust, as documented
by the I-D author(s) in accepting the BCP 78 & 79 rules via the
mandatory inclusion of the above quoted sentence.
That makes any distinction between insiders and outsiders moot
in this context of Internet-Drafts.
Kind regards,
Alfred.
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