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RFC Editor RFC Series Working Group next generation unicorn sparkling distributed ledger This document establishes a new policy for RFCs and Internet-Drafts that moves all the fluff (copyright notices and that sort of thing) to the bottom of documents. About This Document The latest revision of this draft can be found at . Status information for this document may be found at . Discussion of this document takes place on the RFC Series Working Group Editorial Stream Working Group mailing list (), which is archived at . Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at .

New Policy No one reads the legal shrink wrap. All we do by forcing it under their noses is annoy them and waste their time. The IETF can better serve its audience by moving boilerplate in RFCs and Internet-Drafts to the bottom of documents. This ensures that notices exist, but are minimally annoying.

Security Considerations The obvious argument is that placement of notices is a security feature. However, given the wide acceptance of the fact that security by obscurity is not an adequate defense, the use of obscurity to improve usability equally cannot be expected to degrade security.

IANA Considerations This document has no IANA actions.

Acknowledgments The Internet Protocol Mercenary Company (IPMC) are acknowledged for continuing their ongoing defense of the intellectual property in RFCs.