* Steve Crocker:
A simpler and more pragmatic approach is to include a statement in
the boilerplate of every RFC that says, "RFCs are available free of
charge online from ..."
The copyright rules would prohibit anyone from removing this
statement. If someone pays $47 for a copy and then reads this
statement, he is unlikely to pay $47 again.
As far as I understand it, IEEE, ACM and the others need the search
engine hits from library PCs. Libraries are their primary customer
base. To the patron, it does not really matter what the document says
because it appears to be free anyway.
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