On 14 Jun 2019, at 16:14, Scott Bradner wrote:
On Jun 14, 2019, at 7:06 PM, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
There were several later rounds of conversations about the
general topic on which Scott Bradber would be m8ch more expert
than I am, but I'd be surprised if the answer from him would be
significantly different from the above.
It is not
but I do have a question for John Levine - what is the context of your
question?
republish? produce a revision? ???
Oddly, I can answer that one. Some people quite outside the IETF want to
publish a spec for how to do $foo over the Internet. Their spec quotes
small parts of various RFCs to make the requirements clear for the
vendors who will implement $foo because those vendors do not normally
use IETF standards. They were unsuccessful in finding how to get
permission to quote from RFCs, and by circuitous route got to me. I
passed them along to the IETF Trust, and that's where John's message
originates. (Side-note: they didn't know who Jon Postel was or how to
reach him to ask about getting the right to quote RFC 768. I had to
break that news to them...)
--Paul Hoffman
