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Re: #1400 Opinion poll - question draft

Since I provoked this, I'll expand on my comment.

Authors decide whether they are willing to grant the IETF the rights the IETF has indicated it wants granted.
The working group then produces the document which becomes the standards track RFC.
As such, if there is to be any restriction or change in the outbound rights granted in the RFC, those rights have to be granted by the IETF, based on a decision by the working group. Not by the individual.
(For individual contributions, since the only rough consensus call is the IETF last call, it becomes the IETF that has to make the decision.)

Now, if we have several sets of outbound rights, and if we further complicate our life by having several sets of inbound rights, then if a contributor chooses to use a more restrictive set of inbound rights that would restrict the options available to the working group. This strongly suggests that having multiple inbound rights introduces significant complications. And in the absence of multiple inbound rights I can see no reason whatsoever for multiple otubound rights.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

At 10:06 AM 12/6/2006, Simon Josefsson wrote: 
> My best guess to the "IETF tradition" in this space is that we have
> been very unclear.

I've not seen anyone claim that the rights which are granted to IETF
documents were not up to each author to decide.  The author's decision
can naturally be influenced by others in a working group, and by the
rules needed by the IETF to be able to publish the documents at all.

> In all cases, as was noted with earlier text, any such choice would
> have to be up to the working group, not the author.

Hm, can you give a reference or expand on that?

I believe that the one who wrote the text decides the rules for the
text.

It may be that a working group decides, that if an author demands
certain special license texts, the author has to be replaced by
someone else who is willing to use a different license, but that is as
far as, I believe, working group powers reach.



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