Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

[Marshall Eubanks <[e-mail]>]

>
> On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Russ Housley wrote:
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>>>
>>
>> The RFC Editor is asking the authors.  That is the list of people  
>> that is readily available.  If the authors cannot speak for all  
>> Contributors, then the document will have to wait until a work- 
>> around is found.
>>
>
> Given that we've historically weeded out the contributor-list on a  
> document to "four or less", even if there were really dozens of  
> "contributors" at the alleged insistence of the RFC Editor, I don't  
> see how any older document or even a majority of new documents-in- 
> progress could be adapted to the new rules.
>
> This appears to require complete abandonment of all previous works  
> and "clean room" rewrites under the new terms.

Even in this worse case scenario (which clearly won't be true in all  
cases), I think that that is only true for documents that need to be
licensed outside of the IETF process.

Regards
Marshall

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