Proposed updated charter, IPR WG

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

Brian,

attached is the proposal for an updated charter for the IPR working group.
There are only minimal changes compared to the version that was presented 
to the WG on January 10; the wording of the "we won't change" historical 
sentence has been changed to refer to patents only, and the date of one 1st 
draft has been moved back to February.

I did not add any more documents to the WG's plate; I think doing so will 
work against the schedule for the documents listed.

I hope you can place this before the IESG.

                  Harald

                      Intellectual Property Rights (ipr)

   Last Modified: 2006-01-26

Chair(s):

   Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>
   Steven Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu>

General Area Director(s):

   Brian Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>

General Area Advisor:

   Brian Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com>

Mailing Lists:

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Description of Working Group:

   The IETF and the Internet have greatly benefited from the free
   exchange of ideas and technology. For many years the IETF normal
   behavior was to standardize only unencumbered technology.
   While the "Tao" of the IETF is still strongly oriented toward
   unencumbered technology, we can and do make use of technology that has
   various encumbrances.
   One of the goals of the IETF IPR policy has been to make it easier
   for the IETF to make use of encumbered technology when it made
   sense to do so.

   This group has attempted to clarify and update that IPR policy,
   resulting in RFC 3978, RFC 3979 and RFC 3905. The WG has also
   discussed the possibility of changing the IETF's patent policy, but
   did not detect a consensus for doing so.

   At the time of this recharter (January 2006), there are two
   remaining items of work for the WG:

   - An issue with the production of derivative works has led to the
     realization that RFC 2026 and RFC 3978 do not specify exacty the
     same policy on this matter, and that neither policy, when read
     literally, may be optimal for the IETF's purpose

   - The creation of the IETF Trust for managing the IETF IPR has led
     to the question of the IETF community giving advice on how this
     IPR is to be handled, in particular whether the previous
     discussions of the IPR WG has led to experience that should be
     codified.

   The WG will produce 3 documents:

   - An update to RFC 3978 (BCP) that attempts to specify an useful
     set of rights granted to the IETF by authors
   - A document (info) giving advice to the IETF Trust on what rights in
     IETF contributions it should attempt to grant to the public
   - A document (info) giving other advice to the IETF Trust on IPR
     handling, based on the IPR WG's experience of discussions in the area

   The last document may include advice to the IETF Trust on
   mechanisms for consulting with the community on IPR issues once the
   IPR WG has closed, if consensus on such advice can be found.

   The IPR WG may decide to drop the last document from its charter if
   it decides that it has nothing to say.

   All documents should have an IETF-wide Last Call before being approved.

Goals and Milestones:

   Done	     1st draft of RFC 3978 update
   Feb 2006  1st draft of granted rights advice doc 
   Feb 2006  1st draft of IPR advice doc
   Mar 2006  RFC 3978 update to IESG for approval
   Apr 2006  Granted rights advice to IESG for approval
   Aug 2006  IPR advice to IESG for approval
   Oct 2006  Once documents are all published, close WG

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