Re: draft-ietf-ipr-rules-update-00.txt

["C. M. Heard" <heard at pobox.com>]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> When deciding the copying permission I am granted, I believe I should
> not have to read through anything but the copying permission.  If the
> copying permission is not saying the same thing that was intended, or
> what the IETF tradition is, or what the WG intended to say, that is a
> problem with the copying permission that should be fixed.

We certainly agree on that point.

> If I start to assume that I have rights to RFCs that are not expressed
> in the copying permission, logic dictate that I might as well assume
> anything.

Relying on the public statements of the document editor and on the
publically archived deliberations of the WG is not the same thing at
all as making an arbitrary assumption.  The premise of the statement
in the paragraph above is wrong, so its conclusion does not follow.

//cmh


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