On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Julian Reschke wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > ... > > > The WHATWG submitted the document to the IETF > > > > I don't think that's an accurate portrayal of anything that has occurred, > > unless you mean the way my commit script uploads any changes to the draft to > > the tools.ietf.org scripts. That same script also submits the varous > > documents generated from that same source document to the W3C and WHATWG > > source version control repositories. > > ... > > By submitting an Internet Draft according to BCP 78 you grant the IETF certain > rights; it's not relevant whether it was a script or yourself using a browser > or a MUA who posted it. > > You may want to check <http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp78#section-5.3>. With the exception of the trademark rights, which I don't have and therefore cannot grant, the rights listed there are a subset of the rights the IETF was already granted by virtue of the WHATWG publishing the spec under a very liberal license. So that doesn't appear to be relevant. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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