Re: Lawyer's advice on boilerplate in RFCs and I-Ds

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:43:18 -0700
"todd glassey" <tglassey at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Steven - Thanks for responding!
> 
> I would like to respectfully disagree with your retort... RFC's like
> any other document published in the IETF are regularly upgraded and
> republished

Yes, but the RFC number is changed when that happens.  That's precisely
my point.  See http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/rfcdiff.html for the
best-known example -- a one-word change resulted in RFC 1409 being
replaced by RFC 1416.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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