Russ Housley <hous...@vigilsec.com> writes:

> At 01:28 PM 12/12/2008, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>>As far as I understand, I can no longer take RFC 4398, fix some
>>minor problem, and re-submit it as a RFC 4398bis.  Even though I was
>>editor of RFC 4398.  The reason is that some material in that document
>>was written by others.  At least, I cannot do this, without getting
>>permission from the other people who wrote the initial document.  I wish
>>this is mistaken and that someone can explain how to reconcile this
>>example with what Russ wrote.
>
> Correct.  RFC 5378 imposes this burden on the contributor.  All of the
> rights needed to make updates to the document within the IETF
> Standards Process are clearly already available, but the contributor
> is required to obtain the additional rights that are required by RFC
> 5378.

Interesting.  Thanks for confirming the interpretation.

/Simon
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