Content & copyright

What we hold, and under what terms

We preserve historical material; we do not claim to own it. Copyright in the original documents and posts stays with their authors and rights-holders.

• RFCs and Internet-Drafts are served under the IETF Trust’s Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (BCP 78), which permit copying and distributing these documents in full and without modification, with their notices intact. We keep those notices.
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We attribute sources and preserve provenance. We do not alter the preserved record; where we add our own layers, we label them (see our note on machine-generated layers).

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