On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:54:26 -0500
John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com> wrote:
Except for the fact that the material being cited contains the
specifics of license and IPR releases, and promises to abide by
certain rules, by the authors. Authors can't reasonably be
asked to agree to something that might be published under the
BCP number in the indefinite future, so you are either stuck
with a document (RFC) number or a BCP as of a specific date,
which amounts to the same thing and is harder to track down.
I'll let Jorge correct me if I'm wrong, but referencing by
<number,date> is the norm in the legal world, since statutes do get
amended without necessarily being renumbered.
I do agree we want to make it easy for non-lawyers. I've suggested a
date-stamped archive of each version of each such document, for
precisely that reason.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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