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Re: Last Call on draft-bradner-rfc3979bis-08.txt ("Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology")

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Fri, 25 March 2016 20:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call on draft-bradner-rfc3979bis-08.txt ("Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology")
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--On Saturday, March 26, 2016 08:40 +1300 Brian E Carpenter
<brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's clear that any design team *output* is a contribution.
> But if a group of friends have a chat over lunch, not as a
> design team mandated by WG chairs, and one of them mentions a
> silly idea that is rejected in favour of a good idea that the
> group later proposes to the WG, is that silly idea a
> contribution? I don't think so.

+1.  But what makes that output a Contribution is its injection
into the IETF process as an I-D, a WG discussion, a comment at a
plenary microphone, or mention on an IETF-related mailing list.
All of those are clearly Contributions even under 3979 and its
predecessors.

> All the same, I think the phrase "IETF-sanctioned" is
> redundant. A citation of RFC 2418 would be in order, perhaps.

Remember that we have a significant number of documents,
standards-track and otherwise, that do not come out of WGs and
that we have traditionally wanted to be covered by IPR
disclosure rules.   2418, AFAICT, is only about WGs.

    john

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