Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 11:16:31 -0400
From: vint cerf <vcerf(_at_)MCI(_dot_)NET>
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| I think the I-D are explicitly NOT public domain.
As a general rule, absolutely, I agree. However, drafts that I happen
to write which are WG output explicitly are public domain (they all say
that inside them). See draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-12.txt for a current
example. Or any of the earlier versions of that doc, should you be
able to find them.
As usual, I probably wasn't being very clear in my message. I referred
only to drafts I submit - I can't speak for what other authors do, or
desire.
kre
ps: the ftpext mlst draft mentioned above also raises the question of why anyone
would want to archive *all* old drafts - not having source material available
has to be a problem to historians, and others. Having too much of it has to
be just as big a problem. The only thing that having one of the old mlst
drafts around would achieve for posterity would be to demonstrate that I can't
count beyond 10 ... when someone pointed out that I was unable to count, an
updated draft was submitted with "twelve" changed to "fourteen" which was
really obvious to anyone was what it should have been (except apparently me).