RFC 7991, "The "xml2rfc" Version 3 Vocabulary", December 2016

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 9920

Errata ID: 8522
Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Michael StJohns
Date Reported: 2025-07-30
Rejected by: Dhruv Dhody
Date Rejected: 2026-04-07

Section A.1.2.4 says:

   The special value "none" was also used back then; it denied the IETF
   any rights beyond publication as an Internet-Draft.

It should say:

Remove from A.1.2.4. Should be its own section under A.1.1, and have this text:


The special value "none" is available to produce documents not intended 
for submission to the Internet-Drafts system or the RFC Editor system.  
It omits any publication IPR boilerplate related to the IETF and RFC process.

Notes:

The xml2rfc tool still supports the 'ipr="none"' attribute for the "rfc" element, and its original designed use was not to deny the IETF publication rights, but to re-use a set of code and tools for other documents that could make use of similar formatting.

Regardless of whether "none" is obsolete or not, either the original text or the corrected text needs to be moved out from under A.1.2.4.

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The erratum is rejected.

RFC 7991 accurately reflects the historical meaning of ipr="none". The proposed text describes tool usage, which is not a valid correction to the RFC.
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