Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:33:34 -0800 

Contreras, Jorge wrote:

Who owns the oft-repeated
   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this 
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].



  

I'm referring to the bits effectively required by the MIB 
doctors, e.g.:
   This memo defines a portion of the Management Information 
Base (MIB)
   for use with network management protocols in the Internet 
community.

   In particular, it defines a basic set of managed objects for Simple
   Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based management of ...

and
   For a detailed overview of the documents that describe the current

   Internet-Standard Management Framework, please refer to 
section 7 of

   RFC 3410 [RFC3410].


   Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information 
store, termed

   the Management Information Base or MIB.  MIB objects are generally
   accessed through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
   Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the

   Structure of Management Information (SMI).  This memo 
specifies a MIB
   module that is compliant to the SMIv2, which is described 
in STD 58,

   RFC 2578 [RFC2578], STD 58, RFC 2579 [RFC2579] and STD 58, RFC 2580
   [RFC2580].

and various incarnations of this stuff that appear in the text of RFCs

that happen to contain MIB modules, not the stuff that's in 
the MIB modules.

(Earlier versions of this were rather lengthy.)

    


I will check into this.  Ideally, all boilerplate would be owned by the
IETF Trust, but I am not aware that anyone has ever focused on this
material.  Technically, the copyright owner would be the author(s) who
wrote the first document that says those words.  However, the copyright

in such generic phrases is vestigial at best. 

Jorge, would the fact that people have acted as if these phrases can be 
copied freely for the last 20 years create a presumption that the 
copyright holders (if any) have given permission for their free copying?



(I tracked the first sentence of the "Managed objects are accessed" 
phrase back to RFC 1065, August 1988; authors-of-record were Marshall 
Rose and Keith McCloghrie. There were drafts before that, of course.)


            Harald

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