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RFC COPYRIGHTS

To protect the integrity of RFC publication, all RFCs are with
published an ISOC (Internet Society) copyright statement.  The text of
the standard copyright statement is appended below.

This copyright notice was designed to ensure that Request For Comments
(RFC) documents will have the widest possible distribution.  The following
general guidelines control the reproduction and modification of RFCs.

1. Copying and distributing an entire RFC without any changes:

  1a. The copying and free redistribution are generally encouraged.

  1b. The inclusion of such RFC copies in other documents and
      collections that are distributed for a fee is also encouraged.
      However, in this case it is a courtesy (i) to ask the RFC author and
      (ii) provide the RFC author with a copy of the final document or
      collection.

        Anyone can take some RFCs, put them in a book, copyright the
        book, and sell it.  This in no way inhibits anyone else from
        doing the same thing, or inhibits any other distribution of
        the RFCs.

2. Copying and distributing the whole RFC with changes in format,
   font, etcetera:

  2a. The same as case 1, with the addition that a note should be made
      of the reformatting.

3. Copying and distributing portions of an RFC:

  3a. As with any material excerpted from another source, proper credit
      and citations must be provided.

4.  Translating RFCs into other languages:

  4a. Since wide distribution of RFCs is very desirable, translation
      into other languages is also desirable.  The same requirements and
      courtesies should be followed in distributing RFCs in translation as
      would be followed when distributing RFCs in the original language.

The RFC Editor
Last revised: 23 January 2001

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STANDARD RFC COPYRIGHT

In the following copyright text, <date> is replaced by the original
publication date of the RFC containing the text.

         "Copyright (C) The Internet Society (<date>). All Rights
         Reserved.

         This document and translations of it may be copied and
         furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or
         otherwise explain it or assist in its implmentation may be
         prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in
         part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above
         copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such
         copies and derivative works.  However, this document itself may
         not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright
         notice or references to the Internet Society or other Internet
         organizations, except as needed for the  purpose of developing
         Internet standards in which case the procedures for copyrights
         defined in the Internet Standards process must be followed, or
         as required to translate it into languages other than English.

         The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will
         not be revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or
         assigns.

         This document and the information contained herein is provided
         on an "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET
         ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
         IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE
         OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY
         IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A
         PARTICULAR PURPOSE."

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