Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-30 Thread Hal Murray
PS - i let the draft in question expire because i wanted to. that's the nice thing about expiry - the author retains a tiny modicum of control over something. the notion that people other than the author can usurp control and publish it anyway is repugnant and is plagarism, pure and

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Hal Murray
But seriously - it would be *nice* if the trade press scrutinized all the documents - but sometimes I wish the reporter would wave a cluon-flux meter over the press release.. Mabe we need some publicity. How about a working group to issue "Golden Fleece" type awards at each IETF meeting? We