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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