[ih] Karl's post from Friday: Re: Interop as part of Internet History

[Andrew G. Malis]

Dave,

The IETF can override an independent submission RFC that duplicates or
conflicts with IETF technical work (it can't be an end-around), but other
than that, the ISE and RFC Editor are free to use their own judgement on
what's suitable to publish.

Cheers,
Andy


On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 9:38 AM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 9/14/2020 3:21 AM, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> > good question. the independent RFC stream is pretty open; historic is
> > usually with reference to a protocol so it would likely be considered a
> > re-interpretation of the intent of the term. Regardless of the label, I
> > don't see why a historical account could not be an independent stream
> > submission.
> > v
>
> Its openness is variable.  In effect, the IETF gets a veto over
> publication of anything related to IETF work.  The Independent Stream
> has the option to override the IETF but ...
>
> d/
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