Re: Problems with draft-ietf-ipr-subm-rights-fix

below...

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> IETF Last Call and IESG discussion uncovered 2 problems with the 
> proposed draft-ietf-ipr-subm-rights-fix.
> Both were actually problems with RFC 3667....
> 
> 1) C. M. Heard discovered that section 6 did not permit an RFC Editor 
> contribution to be published with the standard copyright notice and 
> disclaimer; as written, it only permits the special variants given there.
> 
> 2) The RFC Editor discovered that one word had been changed from RFC 
> 3667 to draft-ietf-ipr-subm-rights-fix; section 4.2 a(A) was changed 
> from reading "RFC" to "Internet Draft".
> 
> This turns out to be a change from the i-d version of the document to 
> the RFC version that none of the authors caught in Auth48.
> This illustrates the fact that 4.2 only says that the authors grant the 
> right to publish the draft, not to publish the RFC.... this seems 
> strange to the RFC Editor.
> 
> Suggested disposition (AD's opinion):
> 
> For 1): Change section 6 bullet b to contain 3 alternatives, the third 
> one being:
> 
>        C. The Copyright Notice specified in Section 5.4 and the
>           disclaimer specified in section 5.5
> 

Looks good.

> For 2): Ignore the issue in this revision, and leave it to the RFC 
> Editor's "instructions to RFC Authors" to say that a request to publish 
> a draft as an RFC is taken to mean that permission to do so is granted.

OK, but this is a BCP and the instructions to authors are Informational.
It seems odd to have an Informational overriding a BCP.

    Brian

> 
> If this is found reasonable by the WG, I can do this via an RFC Editor 
> note, and have the document on the way to the RFC Editor as soon as it's 
> clear the WG finds it reasonable.
> 
> Your thoughts?
> 
>                   Harald
> 
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