Proposed New Note Well

[IESG Secretary <[e-mail]>]

The IESG and the IAOC legal team have worked together to propose a new version for the note well that is used in various IETF activities. The intent is to make the note well shorter and more readable, and point more clearly to the full documentation of the various rules.

The current note well is available at https://www.ietf.org/about/note-well.html and the proposed new one is below.

The IESG will make a decision about this matter shortly. Please provide comments, if any, to [e-mail] or to the IESG at [e-mail] before January 30, 2016.

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Note Well

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The brief summary:

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BCP 9 (on the Internet Standards Process)
​BCP 25 (on the Working Group processes)
​BCP 78 (on copyright in IETF documents)
​BCP 79 (on patents covering IETF documents)
TBD (on IETF Privacy Statement)