Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-03 Thread Keith Moore
Keith Moore wrote: it's really very simple: people posted I-Ds with the assurance that they would be retired after six months. it's not reasonable for IETF to violate that assurance without permission. Errr, people post IDs to publicly accessible mailing lists which are being

RE: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread graham . travers
Peter, ...there were pretty categoric statements made during the last iteration of this thread that a Drafts archive *was* going up soon. Has this idea been shelved, canceled, delayed or absorbed by the event horizon surrounding the infinitely dense Black Hole that is the intellectual property

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Joe Touch
Peter Deutsch wrote: g'day, John C Klensin wrote: . . . Please, folks, I am _not_ trying to restart the discussion of archival I-Ds. Personally, I remain opposed to the idea, and I believe that they should be treated as drafts and discarded. If they result in an RFC, then the RFC

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Peter Deutsch
Thanks a 1x10^6. I missed that! - peterd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, ...there were pretty categoric statements made during the last iteration of this thread that a Drafts archive *was* going up soon. Has this idea been shelved, canceled, delayed or

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Peter Deutsch
Joe Touch wrote: . . . Yes. The history here is the reason why the drafts are ephemeral and not archived - to encourage the exchange of incomplete ideas. The success of this history is what is being compromised. Archiving them creates an environment where drafts and updates will be

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Keith Moore
it's really very simple: people posted I-Ds with the assurance that they would be retired after six months. it's not reasonable for IETF to violate that assurance without permission. so if IETF wants to make old drafts publically available (and I agree this could be a useful thing), it really

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Peter Deutsch
Keith Moore wrote: it's really very simple: people posted I-Ds with the assurance that they would be retired after six months. it's not reasonable for IETF to violate that assurance without permission. Errr, people post IDs to publicly accessible mailing lists which are being archived

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: if respecting the author's wishes isn't reasonable or practical, it might be that you live in a pretty warped world. Or a courtroom (or will). These aren't just wishes; there are valid copyright issues. Joe

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Keith Moore
These aren't just wishes; there are valid copyright issues. perhaps. but even if the lawyers said it was okay for IETF to make those archives public, I'd still argue that it's acting in bad faith for IETF to do so without a reasonable effort to get permission. i.e. laws and ethics aren't the

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Keith Moore wrote: These aren't just wishes; there are valid copyright issues. perhaps. but even if the lawyers said it was okay for IETF to make those archives public, I'd still argue that it's acting in bad faith for IETF to do so without a reasonable effort to get

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 01 July, 2002 13:55 -0700 Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so if IETF wants to make old drafts publically available (and I agree this could be a useful thing), it really should get permission from the authors. or at least notify them and give authors the chance to say

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-06-30 Thread John C Klensin
Joe, --On Saturday, June 29, 2002 6:32 PM -0700 Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently had another close encounter with the patent system and notions of prior art. It occurs to me that we could make a slight modification to the Internet Draft structure and encourage including an

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-06-30 Thread Peter Deutsch
g'day, John C Klensin wrote: . . . Please, folks, I am _not_ trying to restart the discussion of archival I-Ds. Personally, I remain opposed to the idea, and I believe that they should be treated as drafts and discarded. If they result in an RFC, then the RFC should stand on its own. Nor

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-06-29 Thread Joe Touch
John C Klensin wrote: Hi. I've recently had another close encounter with the patent system and notions of prior art. It occurs to me that we could make a slight modification to the Internet Draft structure and encourage including an additional bit of information that would be quite

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-06-29 Thread Joe Touch
Lloyd Wood wrote: Given that a large number of drafts, including even draft-bradner-submission-rights-00.txt currently end in a boilerplate saying copyright (year) or an out-of-date year because the boilerplate has been cut and pasted from a previous draft, it would be impossible to rely

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-06-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:30:21 EDT, John C Klensin said: 2000.04.01 or first submitted 1999.12.25. Or the author could choose to list each version number, the date, and perhaps a brief summary of major ideas introduced. You'd have to do this, in case the prior art was something introduced

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-06-27 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 27 June, 2002 11:12 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:30:21 EDT, John C Klensin said: 2000.04.01 or first submitted 1999.12.25. Or the author could choose to list each version number, the date, and perhaps a brief summary of major ideas introduced.