Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

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Russ Housley wrote:
> Marshall:
>
> > My understanding (and IANAL and Jorge is welcome to correct me) is 
> > that the IETF
> > does indeed have "sufficient rights to allow re-use of IETF documents 
> > within the IETF", and
> > that this is purely concerned with the power of granting modification 
> > rights to other parties.
> >
> > This is not a very common occurrence as far as I can tell, and so in 
> > some sense
> > this is a corner case.
>
> You are correct that the rights for the IETF Standards Process are 
> already in place, at least for every contribution made after RFC 2026 
> was published.  However, RFC 5378 does not include a provision for a 
> contribution that does not grant all of the required rights.
>
> Even if the IETF Trust were to never make use of any rights beyond the 
> IETF Standards Process, these additional rights must be granted under 
> the requirements of RFC 5378.  If a person cannot obtain the necessary 
> rights, then that person cannot make a contribution to the IETF.  This 
> was the consensus of the IPR WG and the IETF, and the IETF is now 
> operating under the resulting process BCP.
>
> Russ
Which changes the IETF from arguably a pure R&D NPO to a IP Licensing 
House with a portfolio worth at the very least the hundreds of millions 
spent on producing it.
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