On Wed, May 27, 2026, at 07:38, Eric Rescorla wrote: > That's a non-answer. I've submitted many PRs to I-Ds and I can't think > of any instance in which anyone has asked me if my text was original, > and I doubt very much they are running plagiarism detectors, so to the > extent to which this is the author's responsibility, I don't see much > evidence they are fulfilling it. If you are creating a new requirement, > I think you should first demonstrate it's practical.
This is because there is an implicit expectation: you are expected to not submit plagiarized material and we don't bother to check because we trust that people will not do that. Our I-D repositories generally reference the IPMC licensing requirements for contributions, which require that when a contributor makes a contribution, they make certain licensing commitments. Implicit in that is the requirement that a contributor is authorized to make those commitments, which would not be the case if the material were plagiarized. I don't think that this needs new requirements or demonstrations of practicality, just a recognition that there is generally a implicit social contract involved of approximately the above shape. There's a bit of legal protection around that, as I noted, but it's largely the social contract that keeps us from needing something stronger. -- rswg mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
