Re: Transfers of copyright versus licensing

Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> writes:

> Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
>> I've seen indications (in the context of an open source project) that
>> joint copyright ownership might be legally possible.
>> In other words, both the contributor *and* the recipient would
>> retain full
>> rights to do whatever they wanted with the text.
>
> Scenario: I write a spec. The IETF puts the ISOC copyright on it.
> I invert a couple of bytes in my version and republish.
> Interoperability, anybody?

What exactly is your point?

Are you saying that simply because an author invert a few bytes in
their document and publish it somewhere (!= IETF, I presume), there
will be interoperability issues?

I'd like to hold implementors of IETF protocols to a higher standard
than becoming confused over something like that.

Non-IETF or non-technical people (which DO read RFCs) may be confused,
but fortunately they rarely implement the protocols, so I believe the
practical protocol-interoperability issues, when RFCs are freely
modifiable, is likely zero.

Remember that there is nothing the IETF can do to prevent the
possibility that non-IETF-members become confused -- everyone can
author a document and entitle it "RFC 2822".  Make it look credible,
and you will fool someone.

Looking forwards to the IPR meeting minutes,
Simon

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