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'Responsible Disclosure' Draft Could Have Legal Muscle
Mark Rasch, 2002-03-11

A proposed Internet standard would dictate how researchers report and vendors close security vulnerabilities. Ignoring it could be risky for either side.

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'Responsible Disclosure' Draft Could Have Legal Muscle 2002-03-12
Coldman (1 replies)
> "official Internet standard, called an "RFC"

Internet standards are named STD, not RFC.

RFC is "Request for comments" and nothing more, unless widely accepted/recognized as standard. Publishing a RFC won't make it standard by itself.

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