On Jun 28, 2013, at 12:10 PM, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks, IANAL, but please be _very_ careful about the comment Joe > made about the potential difference between publishing a paper > or article that contains code and exporting the code itself or > making it generally available for export. I have no reason to > believe that this particular case is a problem given how widely > the details of SHA-2 has been published but, if we want the RFC > Editor to go into the code distribution business, we should be > very sure that an attorney with the right specialties has looked > at the situation and either cleared it generally or advised on > what needs to be examined case by case. The RFC Editor is publishing code in a text file that is formatted like an RFC. The proposal is for the RFC Editor to publish *the exact same code* in a file without the RFC wrapping. If you really think you see a legal difference in doing the second, fine; I propose that you are just searching for problems that do not exist. --Paul Hoffman