Re: Copying and licensing....Re: Copying conditions

Thanks Paul - this is exactly the bigger question to the IETF's governance process and how a single working group gets to set precedent and enforce it for all other working groups, considering that none of those other groups, have any involvement in this process. 

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Todd

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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Paul Hoffman / VPNC <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
> At 5:00 PM +0100 1/10/05, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> >So would it be OK for an I-D author to say something like this:
> >
> >  In addition to the license given to the IETF, the author declares that
> >  Copying and distribution of the work, with or without
> >  modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty
> >  provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved
> 
> Serious question: if some RFCs say that, and others (like the 
> previous 4000 RFCs) do not, what is an implementer to think about 
> those that do not?
> 
> Such an addition seems to generate more confusion than clarity for 
> the overall set of RFCs.
> 
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --VPN Consortium
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