On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:06:39AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx> wrote a message of 31 lines which said: > Unfortunately, the actual text is very short on this matter > ("Standards specifications are made accessible to all for > implementation and deployment") and does not mention gratis access > and redistribution, one of the big reasons of the success of the > TCP/IP family (RFC 5218, section 2.1.5). Was it because the IEEE > would not sign otherwise > <http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/index.html>? I owe IEEE an apology. They are actually very good for publishing data on the Internet :-) http://ieeelog.com/ http://www.zdnet.com/ieee-admits-password-leak-says-problem-fixed-7000004804/ I hope that passwords at datatracker.ietf.org are not in the log file :-)