Re: no no derivatives, was legal consultation (was List moderator action)

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Twenty years ago I would have agreed with you. These days, it would take about
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10 seconds to stick a draft or draft-like thing on a server somewhere else and
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send a note to an IETF list saying take a look at my document at

And how many years of retraining would it take to get various IETFers to stop saying “please write up a draft first?”  I think that’s much more than the “process nit” you think it is.


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Considering the length of this thread, I think the simplification would be worth it.

I think this would be an incredibly bad look for the IETF in the public eye and that we would be on the defensive for years.