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Re: IANA-maintained MIB copyright question


On 2007-01-25 01:55, Bill Fenner wrote: 
Hi,

 RFC 3978 specifies an additional copyright notice for
IANA-maintained MIB modules:

        "Copyright (C) The Internet Society <year>.  The initial
        version of this MIB module was published in RFC XXXX; for full
        legal notices see the RFC itself.  Supplementary information
        may be available at:
        http://www.ietf.org/copyrights/ianamib.html.";

The ianamib.html document hasn't been updated since it was created in
2003, but when pondering how to update it I had a few questions:

1. Can it have a date in it?  You can't claim a 2007 copyright on
something that you haven't updated since 2003 (right?) and you can't
claim a 2003 copyright on something that didn't exist in 2003 (right?)
so neither 2003 nor 2007 can be correct.


I'm waiting for someone with a legal education to answer that,
but I think it should refer to (year of publication)


2. Should it be updated to mention the IETF Trust?

yes. In fact the Trust needs to check the update when it comes. 

3. What is the basis for this grant of rights?  It's my understanding
that the ipr wg has consensus that the IETF Trust copyright statement
applies to the boilerplate only.  The IANA-maintained MIB modules have
no boilerplate, only the MIB module itself.  Is there any hook on
which to hang the Internet Society/IETF Trust's grant of rights?


Actually the Trust's rights refer to the derivative work done in
the IETF, not just to the boilerplate, as I understand things. So if
derivative work is done outside the IETF, it isn't ours.

   Brian

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