Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Simon Josefsson
Harald Tveit Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no writes: Simon Josefsson skrev: Ray Pelletier rpellet...@isoc.org writes: On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: Why do we need to send these license forms in at all? I thought the requirement was that the authors get the

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Simon Josefsson
Contreras, Jorge jorge.contre...@wilmerhale.com writes: Jorge, I'm working on the assumption that once a contributor or a contributor's assign has signed the license form in its RFC5378 version, we can all submit drafts including that contributor's earlier text without further ado. Is that

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Harald Alvestrand
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

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Simon Josefsson
Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no writes: 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

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: Harald Tveit Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no writes: Simon Josefsson skrev: Ray Pelletier rpellet...@isoc.org writes: On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: Why do we need to send these license forms in at all? I thought the

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Dec 19, 2008, at 6:04 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no writes: 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

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Andrew Sullivan
[I trimmed the cc:s. I assume the trustees are paying attention to this, and also that WG Chairs are all subscribed to the general list.] On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:12:42PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: How does this help contributors use the older material? As far as I understood the rules,

Fwd: RFC 5378 representation

2008-12-19 Thread Fred Baker
For the record, I have sent the following email to the IAD, signed using my PGP key. I would encourage others to send similar notes. From: Fred Baker f...@cisco.com Date: December 18, 2008 2:56:20 PM PST To: i...@ietf.org Cc: Trustees trust...@ietf.org Subject: RFC 5378 representation I,

Re: RFC 5378 representation

2008-12-19 Thread Fred Baker
So, having just cleared this note with the Trustees, sending it in, and forwarding the note to the IETF list, I observe http://trustee.ietf.org/docs/Contributor_Non-Exclusive_License_RFC5378.pdf . By all means, folks, use the form. !...@#$%^ On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Fred Baker wrote:

RE: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 18 December, 2008 17:37 -0500 Contreras, Jorge jorge.contre...@wilmerhale.com wrote: As a slightly harder example: what is the set of names required to cover all the boilerplate text that goes into an RFC containing a MIB module? See above. In addition, MIB modules were

RFC 5378 Contributor License Form

2008-12-19 Thread Ray Pelletier
All The trustees are aware of the problems with respect to the RFC 5378 implementation and possible consequences with respect to the license. Pending a further analysis, and possible modification to the license, we have taken the current license off-line. You may also expect a proposal

RE: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Contreras, Jorge
(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.) That date is before RFC 1310 which makes things more interesting. Even

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenarys

2008-12-19 Thread Lawrence Rosen
[also RE: where to send RFC 5378 license form] To: IETF TRUST I have signed and faxed a copy of the IETF Documents Non-Exclusive License to +1-703-326-9881. Not that my technical contributions actually matter, but perhaps someone here will someday want to copy or create derivative works of my

RE: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenarys

2008-12-19 Thread Contreras, Jorge
Larry - thank you for your contribution! I further want to comment that, as far as I can tell, it may not even be necessary to get *everyone* to sign. Here's the reason: Most RFCs are joint works. Quoting (FWIW) from my own book on the subject of licensing: In the United States,

RE: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Bob Braden
Indeed -- I don't see a copyright notice in RFC 1065. This may be a useful approach for old RFCs that lack a copyright notice. Does anyone know when the ISOC copyright notice was first applied to RFCs? Probably some time after 1989, when the ISOC took over funding of the RFC Editor. I

RE: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenarys

2008-12-19 Thread Lawrence Rosen
Jorge Contreras wrote: The problem lies with collective works, rather than joint works. In some cases, the multiple authors of IETF documents have each made distinct contributions (i.e., sections or distinct text) rather than collaborating to produce joint text. Unfortunately it is not

History of RFC copyright text

2008-12-19 Thread Dave CROCKER
Bob Braden wrote: Indeed -- I don't see a copyright notice in RFC 1065. This may be a useful approach for old RFCs that lack a copyright notice. Does anyone know when the ISOC copyright notice was first applied to RFCs? Probably some time after 1989, when the ISOC took over funding of the

RE: History of RFC copyright text

2008-12-19 Thread Contreras, Jorge
Dave -- very useful -- thanks!! -Original Message- From: Dave CROCKER [mailto:d...@dcrocker.net] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 3:56 PM To: IETF Discussion Cc: Contreras, Jorge Subject: History of RFC copyright text Bob Braden wrote: Indeed -- I don't see a copyright

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenarys

2008-12-19 Thread Dave CROCKER
Contreras, Jorge wrote: The problem lies with collective works, rather than joint works. In some cases, the multiple authors of IETF documents have each made distinct contributions (i.e., sections or distinct text) rather than collaborating to produce joint text. Unfortunately it is not

RE: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Contreras, Jorge
As a slightly harder example: what is the set of names required to cover all the boilerplate text that goes into an RFC containing a MIB module? See above. In addition, MIB modules were licensed broadly under RFC 3978, so they are less problematic than non-code text.

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Dear Jorge; On Dec 19, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Contreras, Jorge wrote: (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.) That date is

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Contreras, Jorge
Title: Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms Yes, I think we mention federal works in 5378. Unfortunately I don't think there are a lot of them, but have not done an inventory. - Original Message - From: Marshall Eubanks t...@multicasttech.com To: Contreras, Jorge

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread macbroadcast
federal works sorry for my might be oftopic comment, so if i see something like this in a source code, , This material is partially based on work sponsored by the National Science foundation under Cooperative Agreement No NCR-x.The Government has certain rights in this material.

RE: RFC 5378 representation

2008-12-19 Thread Christian Huitema
On Thursday, December 18, 2008 3:10 PM, Fred Baker wrote: So, having just cleared this note with the Trustees, sending it in, and forwarding the note to the IETF list, I observe http://trustee.ietf.org/docs/Contributor_Non-Exclusive_License_RFC5378.pdf. Fred, Some of these RFC were

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread TSG
macbroadcast wrote: There are also numerous Federal Co-Development programs in the various Excutive Branch agencies and they also must be included here because those may also have outside privte commitments as well. Todd Glassey federal works sorry for my might be oftopic comment, so

Protocol Action: 'NFS Version 4 Minor Version 1' to Proposed Standard

2008-12-19 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'NFS Version 4 Minor Version 1 ' draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-29.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Network File System Version 4 Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Lars Eggert and Magnus Westerlund. A

Protocol Action: 'NFSv4 Minor Version 1 XDR Description' to Proposed Standard

2008-12-19 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'NFSv4 Minor Version 1 XDR Description ' draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-dot-x-12.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Network File System Version 4 Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Lars Eggert and Magnus

Protocol Action: 'Object-based pNFS Operations' to Proposed Standard

2008-12-19 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Object-based pNFS Operations ' draft-ietf-nfsv4-pnfs-obj-12.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Network File System Version 4 Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Lars Eggert and Magnus Westerlund. A URL of

Protocol Action: 'Generalized MANET Packet/Message Format' to Proposed Standard

2008-12-19 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Generalized MANET Packet/Message Format ' draft-ietf-manet-packetbb-17.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ross Callon and David Ward. A URL of