Regards/Ngā mihi
Brian Carpenter
On 27-May-26 13:53, Stephen Farrell wrote:
Hiya,
On 27/05/2026 02:43, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
While I feel sure we need to say "no plagiarism",
Is that actually well-defined for I-Ds? We have a tradition
that someone can pick up the ball and run with it, whenever
something needs revising.
Absolutely. The context is "no plagiarism except from RFCs"
(modulo the pre-5378 derivative works gotcha).
That mostly involves earlier text
authors being involved but not always. Similarly, we often
copy chunks of text from document A to document B without
asking the authors of A. Those are almost never problematic
with our boilerplate (and are almost always done well), but
I dunno if there's a definition of plagiarism that fits what
we want.
I'm also not sure we want to make a local definition of
plagiarism.
Well, we *certainly* don't want to rewrite RFC5378 here. But
borrowing from external sources is a different matter, and
possibly illegal, but WANL (we are not lawyers).
Brian
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