Ted Hardie wrote: > At 10:13 AM -0700 9/25/08, Lawrence Rosen wrote: > >> The proposed IETF IPR policy allows the public to modify the code present in >> IETF specifications but not to use that same specification to create >> modified text to document that modified code! Does anyone here honestly >> believe this is justified? > > I'll be the existence proof on this one: I believe it is justified. The > reasons for it have been discussed at length and a conclusion based > on rough consensus has been reached.
Ted explained to me off-list why he believes this policy is justified, and I now understand why he believes that. I still think that the attack (other SDOs palming off modified IETF specifications as canonical) is not as threatening as others think it is (and in general I would prefer to use less heavy-handed methods), but they have more experience than I do with this particular attack, so for what it's worth I have decided to defer to them on this matter. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
