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

[Thomas Narten <[e-mail]>]

"Ed Juskevicius" <[e-mail]> writes:

> The new legend text, if implemented, would do the following:

>   a. Provide Authors and Contributors with a way to identify (to the
>      IETF Trust) that their contributions contain material from pre-5378  
>      documents for which RFC 5378 rights to modify the material outside
>      the IETF standards process may not have been granted, and

One thing that I don't recall being mentioned explicitely is that any
such clause (IMO) needs to make clear which contributers are granting
full 5378 rights, and which are not. What I mean is that all *current*
contributers (i.e., those involved in the editing the *current*
version of the document) need to make clear that their *new*
contribution *is* covered by 5378. That is, we do not want existance
of pre-5378 text to allow a current contributer to continue to operate
under the pre-5378 rules. It is only the pre-existing text that is
covered by the older rules. Presumably, if at some future time we can
get proper rights from all previous contributers, the document should
then be covered in full by 5378.

Looking at the updated draft legal provisions, this aspect needs a
little bit more clarification, IMO. (I'd be happy to comment further
offline if that is not clear.)

Thomas
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