Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

[vint cerf]

I don't think the issue is "weight" as much as it is the
rights to intellectual property contained within the I-D
(and here I mean intellectual property in the most general
sense of the term so as to include copyrights and also
other intellectual property rights).

At least that's where a good deal of the discussion seems
to have centered.

vint



At 09:06 AM 10/1/2000 -0700, Melinda Shore wrote:
>There seems to be specific concern that if it were
>the IETF archiving expired drafts it might be seen
>as giving those documents some weight.  But what if
>some other body or organization were to do the same
>thing?