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RFCs - insufficiently free?RFCs - insufficiently free?Posted Jul 17, 2003 9:31 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)Parent article: RFCs - insufficiently free? What happens if, sometime in the future, the Internet Society is coopted over to the Dark Side and starts moving the network standards in a proprietary or repressive direction? With the current licensing, there is no right to fork the RFCs and attempt to maintain a free, interoperable net. You don't need to. It's perfectly reasonable to use current RFC in the cases where they are still relevant, develop new standard-documents for new cases, and issue new standards that superceed the old ones in cases where the old ones need updating. Such new standards need not be based on the older one, and as such are unaffected by the copyrigth of the old one.
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