-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/07 11:49, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070912 15:04]: >> These are "official" protocol specifications. If you want to >> summarize the RFC, do it in a separate document. > > Let's consider some use cases: > > * You want to use some protocol that is mostly the same as some RFC, but > with some things changed and some names exchanged to fit what you do. > Then you either have to > - refer to the RFC and give some complex list of subsitutions. That's > nice as additional point, but people wanting to read this would be > much more helped if there was an applied text. > - rewrite the whole text, hoping you never overlook something and miss > some detail of the original you would want to keep. (Well, you could > tell that the original with those substitutions has priority, but even > then everybody would just read the new text, implement some bugs, and > you have to tell people to remove those bugs they inserted because > your rewriting of the text had an oversight). > > * You are wanting to write the documentation for your (or somebody's else) > implementation of the RFC. If one is not that firm in english, it's > often easiest to just start with the standard description and modify > some words here, add some more descriptions there, omit some special > cases not applicable, rearrange the sentences a bit and have some nice > looking text using notations and phrases people not speaking your > language but the one you are writing in can understand. And one gets > using the proper standard terms for free. (And before you even start > with fair use and citing, please note that not everyone has that > privilege and citing often means verbatim in some jurisdictions).
If O'Reilly wants to write a book on implementing smtp or dns they must get permission from the IETF? [snip] > > And just to put another reminder: noone is requeasting allowing > modifications posing as unmodified official standards. It's about Did you forget a word? > Hochachtungsvoll, > Bernhard R. Link - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG6B5ZS9HxQb37XmcRAgEEAJsEEK9diCv6Sx42AR8/3Tmnz9eDZgCg0Lcw pgAWoeY+9sIvCXp1Mb0AnuA= =epEZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]