NOTE WELL: New Boilerplate Text Required for all new Submissions to IETF

"Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk> Wed, 12 November 2008 00:15 UTC

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Subject: NOTE WELL: New Boilerplate Text Required for all new Submissions to IETF
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:08:22 -0000
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Note well. Your I-Ds will not be posted unless they conform to new 
boiler-plate requirements.

Adrian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Juskevicius" <edj@nortel.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:03 PM
Subject: Announcement: New Boilerplate Text Required for all new 
Submissionsto IETF


> Greetings.  This message is to draw your attention to the significance
> of the publication of RFC5377 and RFC5378 earlier today.
>
> * RFC5377 is Advice to the Trustees of the IETF Trust on Rights to Be
> Granted in IETF Documents
> * RFC5378 is Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust
>
> Note that RFC5378 is also BCP0078.  RFC5378 is an update to RFC2026, and
> RFC5378 obsoletes both RFC3978 and RFC4748.
>
> Coincident with the above, the IETF Trustees have posted a new policy
> document with guidance to the community on:
> * Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents at
> http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info/
>
> Taken as a set, the documents listed above specify changes that are now
> required in all new submissions into the IETF.
>
> Henrik Levkowetz has updated the idnit tool and AMS have updated the
> Internet-Draft submission tool to reflect the new requirements.  An
> update to the xml2rfc has been requested.
>
> Please review the "Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents" and
> RFC5378 to discover the new boilerplate text that is now required.
> Please also take action to update the tools you use for creating your
> documents.
>
> New submissions using either the old or the new boilerplate text will be
> accepted starting today, until 01h00 UTC on December 16th, 2008.  After
> this cutoff date, all new submissions will be required to use ONLY the
> new boilerplate text.  All submissions using old boilerplate text after
> the cutoff date will be rejected.
>
> Regards and FYI.
>
> Ed Juskevicius
> IETF Trust Chair
> edj@nortel.com
>
> p.s. - Don't be surprised if you see periodic reminders about this as we
> approach December 16th.

NOTE WELL: New Boilerplate Text Required for all … Adrian Farrel