On 05-Jun-26 07:45, John Levine wrote:
It appears that Michael Richardson <[email protected]> said:
We need to positively know who wrote the document, such that we can get
copyright stuff done.
We never have done that before, so no.
While the USSA does not do moral rights, the rest of
the world does, and one aspect of that is being acknowledged.
If some text can't be copyrighted, then I'm not sure how it can be "licensed"
to the IETF. (Please forgive my imprecision here)
The IETF licenses are all non-exclusive. It has always been entirely OK to
include public domain material in IETF contributions. As I said a few messages
back, while I think it would be polite to tell people you've used an LLM to
write something, it's no more of a copyright problem than any other PD material.
That would include work of the US government, which is PD by policy, or
something written before 1930 which is PD by law.
As I already said, I don't think we should drag the RSWG/RSAB into copyright
issues. We have the IETF Trust/IPMC LLC to deal with that (and impose a
disclosure requirement as part of their Legal Provisions if they decide it's
legally necessary).
For me the issue is an ethical one. It feels wrong not to disclose if
an AI wrote my homework. I think we need to put that point to the community.
If the community doesn't want such a rule, fine, but IMHO it needs to be a
wider community than the RSWG that reaches that conclusion..
Brian
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