RFCs - insufficiently free?

RFCs - insufficiently free?

Posted Jul 24, 2003 19:40 UTC (Thu) by EricBackus (guest, #2816)
In reply to: RFCs - insufficiently free? by Ross
Parent article: RFCs - insufficiently free?

You wrote:

> If the ISOC decides to halt development of the Internet
> protocols, this license allows them to do so. Everyone
> would have to start from scratch with new standards and be
> very careful not to infringe any copyrights.

Remember that copyright protects a particular expression of
an idea, but not the idea itself. While ISOC may own the
particular expression of the ideas in an RFC, there is nothing
stopping you from writing something that you call an RFD, that
explains the same idea as an RFC but in different words.

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