Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

Hi -

(I trimmed the CC list, assuming that the WG chairs and Trustees that
care about this stuff are already listening to the IETF discussion.)

> From: "Ray Pelletier" <rpelletier at isoc.org>
> To: "Sam Hartman" <hartmans at mit.edu>
> Cc: "Martin Duerst" <duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp>; "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>; "Working Group Chairs"
<wgchairs at ietf.org>; "IETF Discussion" <ietf at ietf.org>; "Trustees" <trustees at ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:26 PM
> Subject: Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms
>

>
> On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Sam Hartman wrote:
>
> > Why do we need to send these license forms in at all?
> >
> > I thought the requirement was that the authors get the necessary
> > rights.  Are you just conveniently keeping track for us?
>
> I would envision folks providing 5378 licenses to the Trust or their
> pre-5378 work. If licenses are submitted their names could be posted
> online for other Contributors to  ascertain whether a pre-existing
> work has been so licensed.
...

>From this list of names and the content of a pre-5378 RFC, how can a
contributor ascertain that that pre-existing work has been licensed in
its entirety?  Suppose, for example, it contained an extended passage
which was submitted to the working group either on a mailing list or
hammered out in a face-to-face session, but is not identified as such.
Particularly in the latter case (but also in the case of incomplete WG
archives) there doesn't appear to be any reasonable way for a contributor
to make this determination with much confidence.

Just as a simple "for example": what is the set of names that needs to be
posted just to cover all of the boilerplate text we're required to put in our
documents?

As a slightly harder example: what is the set of names required to cover
all the boilerplate text that goes into an RFC containing a MIB module?

Randy


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