glassey [tglassey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Hmmm. Does the IETF publication license allow this? the commercial > resale of its documents? There is no copyright notice on RFC 793, but it was published after 1976, so the question would revolve around the "implicit license" involved in publishing RFCs at the time. > Doesnt this also then tend to violate the intent of the IP Trust and > its role? One would think if anyone was to make money on republication > of IETF intellectual properties it was supposed to be the IETF's > trust. "But someone is making money off of something, damn it, and everyone's pissed it's not them." Companies sell tap water in bottles at prices higher than those of gasoline... In practice, it doesn't matter. You'll pay an engineer far more than $47 to *read* RFC 793. In the software industry, there are shoestring startups, and the engineer is investing his labor in the company. But only a business can invest in designing power grid equipment, and their engineers are being paid in cash. Dale _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf