On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 9:26 AM Eliot Lear <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi... > On 24.06.2026 18:17, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > > I agree that we have minimal quality control for I-Ds when compared to > RFCs. However, that doesn't mean it's appropriate to violate the applicable > professional standards for giving credit in I-Ds. To take an example from > another setting, it's very common for people to publish academic work on > preprint servers which don't do much in the way of peer review. I don't > think that means that plagiarism in preprints is acceptable. > > Bad example. Preprints are very late in the process. > It's actually quite variable, depending on the context.
> And while we might care about drafts, this group can't do much about > them. THAT at least for the moment is left to the streams (principally the > IETF). RFCs are not. > I agree with this statement. That's why I'm arguing that the streams are the right place to handle it. -Ekr
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