RE: Comment on section 2.3 of draft-ietf-ipr-rules-update-01

[John C Klensin <john-ietf at jck.com>]

--On Tuesday, November 08, 2005 19:28 -0500 "Contreras, Jorge" 
<Jorge.Contreras at wilmerhale.com> wrote:

> > I believe it would be better to grant the reprint right to
> > third parties in 3.3 rather than changing the boiler plate,
> > which is what Scott's draft attempt to do now.
>
> Scott's draft does both.  It grants the reprint right in a new
> paragraph 3.3(a)(F), and also has clarifying boilerplate.
>
> Frankly, we could probably eliminate the boilerplate and
> simply rely on the license grants, but I guess it doesn't hurt
> to
> include it for clarity.

Actually, I continue to believe that our tendency toward ever 
more boilerplate is harmful.  It makes trivial documents longer 
and, because it is boilerplate, changes from one document to 
another are very hard to spot and often go unseen.  We would be 
far better to a pointer to licenses, etc., that have the 
property that, if the external material changes, the pointers 
change in a way that makes that clear.

    john


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