On Sep 16, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is a claim in the boilerplate which the IETF, not the authors, are making. I am sure flames are already directed my way for being imprecise here, but what I mean is that although the authors put this boilerplate in the document, the IETF, through the document publication process, effectively affirms that the authors have made this claim, so it's entirely reasonable for us to double-check that all of the authors of a document know they are making this claim, and that it isn't something that one author put in without asking the others about it, and that all the authors actually understand what the boilerplate says.