RFCs - insufficiently free?

RFCs - insufficiently free?

Posted Jul 28, 2003 20:03 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)
In reply to: RFCs - insufficiently free? by jmorris42
Parent article: RFCs - insufficiently free?

This is the reply that nails the problem. I knew that if I looked, I'd find one, and thereby be spared the hassle of writing my own. :-)

They are *standards documents*. Of course they have to be immutable. But no one says -- so far as *I* can see, that you can't lift parts out for other uses, nor that you couldn't issue some derivative document *with a different name or identifier* that said something slightly different.

"More Catholic than the Pope" says it pretty well, IMPO.

But hell, what do I know.

[Repetitive smart-alec catch phrase goes here.]

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