[OAUTH-WG] Copyright and IPR Question regarding IETF OAuth Dynamic Client Registration Specification

Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> Thu, 21 August 2014 12:04 UTC

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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Copyright and IPR Question regarding IETF OAuth Dynamic Client Registration Specification
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Hi Jorge, Hi Scott,

we need your advice in the OAuth working group.

We are about to finalize a specification called 'Dynamic Client
Registration' (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-19)
and this document intentionally harmonizes work done in two other
organizations, namely in Kantara and in the OpenID Foundation. As part
of this harmonization text was copied from specifications developed by
these two organizations. When I did my shepherd write-up the question
about potential copyright and IPR issues surfaced.

Currently, we have put the following text into
draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-19 to reference and acknowledge the work done
in UMA and in the OpenID Foundation concerning the history:

"
Multiple applications using OAuth 2.0 have previously developed
mechanisms for accomplishing such registrations. This specification
generalizes the registration mechanisms defined by the OpenID Connect
Dynamic Client Registration 1.0 [OpenID.Registration] specification and
used by the User Managed Access (UMA) Profile of OAuth 2.0
[I-D.hardjono-oauth-umacore] specification in a way that is compatible
with both, while being applicable to a wider set of OAuth 2.0 use cases.
"

The copyright situation with the UMA work might be easier since the UMA
working group decided to publish their material as an IETF draft -
[I-D.hardjono-oauth-umacore]. The OpenID Connect Registration draft (see
http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-registration-1_0.html) provides
information about the copyright by saying:

"
The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) grants to any Contributor, developer,
implementer, or other interested party a non-exclusive, royalty free,
worldwide copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works from,
distribute, perform and display, this Implementers Draft or Final
Specification solely for the purposes of (i) developing specifications,
and (ii) implementing Implementers Drafts and Final Specifications based
on such documents, provided that attribution be made to the OIDF as the
source of the material, but that such attribution does not indicate an
endorsement by the OIDF.
"

I believe we are OK copying text from your specifications but the IPR
situation is unclear to me since the IPR rules of these two
organizations are different to those in the IETF. The IPR policies of
the two organizations are described here:
http://openid.net/intellectual-property/
http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/download/attachments/2293776/Kantara%20Initiative%20IPR%20Policies%20_V1.1_.pdf

I put the co-chairs of the Kantara UMA working group (see
http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/Home) and the
chairman of the OpenID Foundation (see
http://openid.net/foundation/leadership/) on CC to help with potential
questions. They are well aware of the IETF work on the dynamic client
registration specification.

Thanks for your help.

Ciao
Hannes & Derek