Ted Hardie wrote:
At 10:13 AM -0700 9/25/08, Lawrence Rosen wrote:
The proposed IETF IPR policy allows the public to modify the code present in
IETF specifications but not to use that same specification to create
modified text to document that modified code! Does anyone here honestly
believe this is justified?
I'll be the existence proof on this one: I believe it is justified. The
reasons for it have been discussed at length and a conclusion based
on rough consensus has been reached.
Ted explained to me off-list why he believes this policy is justified,
and I now understand why he believes that. I still think that the attack
(other SDOs palming off modified IETF specifications as canonical) is
not as threatening as others think it is (and in general I would prefer
to use less heavy-handed methods), but they have more experience than I
do with this particular attack, so for what it's worth I have decided to
defer to them on this matter.
Peter
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