Re: [hybi] [whatwg] HttpOnly cookie for WebSocket?

[Ian Hickson <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > ...
> > > The WHATWG submitted the document to the IETF
> > 
> > I don't think that's an accurate portrayal of anything that has occurred,
> > unless you mean the way my commit script uploads any changes to the draft to
> > the tools.ietf.org scripts. That same script also submits the varous
> > documents generated from that same source document to the W3C and WHATWG
> > source version control repositories.
> > ...
> 
> By submitting an Internet Draft according to BCP 78 you grant the IETF certain
> rights; it's not relevant whether it was a script or yourself using a browser
> or a MUA who posted it.
> 
> You may want to check <http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp78#section-5.3>.

With the exception of the trademark rights, which I don't have and 
therefore cannot grant, the rights listed there are a subset of the rights 
the IETF was already granted by virtue of the WHATWG publishing the spec 
under a very liberal license. So that doesn't appear to be relevant.

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