RFC 2026 was in force in 1997 - see section 10

Scott



> On Feb 13, 2016, at 7:39 AM, t.petch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Drake" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2016 2:52 AM
>> 
>> On 2/12/2016 10:46 AM, Eliot Lear wrote:
>>> Hi Stefan,
>>> 
>>> Unless it is absolutely determined that the current work can't
> doesn't
>>> meet criteria for an IETF standard, I would be opposed to such an
>>> exercise.  For one thing, we all have other things to do. For
> another,
>>> and as or more important, we would be denying the reality of the
>>> situation.  I would rather understand now what sort of changes are
>>> being proposed in order for the current work to come up to snuff.
>>> 
>>> Eliot
>>> 
>> Is there anything in this that is incorrect or incomplete?  If not,
> then
>> can it be resubmitted for informational status to define the protocol
> as
>> it currently exists?
>> 
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-grant-tacacs-02
> 
> No! Our procedures have moved on a lot since then and the I-D would need
> substantial editing.  This is problematic.  Nowadays - Note Well -
> anything you or I or anyone else says or writes can be used in an I-D
> without any breach of copyright.  This I-D is 1997 - before my time -
> and I was looking yesterday to try and find out what rules the IETF was
> operating under then and could not find them.  So, who owns the
> copyright in the text?  Who has permission to edit and publish it?  I do
> not know (and have seen this issue take a while to resolve in other
> circumstances).
> 
> And then there is the question of IPR; reading RFC1492, which I think
> would be a Normative Reference in modern parlance, I would expect a
> manufacturer to be taking an interest in this and submitting an IPR
> claim.
> 
> These are surmountable difficulties.  The TLS WG decided that it wanted
> a specification of SSLv3 some 15 years after the event and we now have
> RFC6101 but it takes time and effort.
> 
> Tom Petch
> 
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