Re: copyright boilerplate for independent submissions

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>]

On 2007-08-09 20:27, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> Making it possible to fix the boilerplate requirements without issuing a 
> new RFC is indeed part of what we hope to achieve with the documents now 
> in front of this WG. I hope our currently proposed text achieves that.
> We're not trying to fix any specific problem with the existing procedure.

I agree with that, but...

>                   Harald
>
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > When attempting to submit several non-WG I-Ds recently, I discovered
> > that xml2rfc produces copyright boilerplate that the Secretariat finds
> > unacceptable. The offending text seems to be:
> >
> > "and at http://www.rfc-editor.org/copyright.html";
> >
> > Bill Fenner suggests [1] that this construct was "accidentally outlawed"
> > when RFC 3978 was published, 

I'm not sure it was an accident. I suspect there was concern
about creating legal ambiguity by citing two different sets of rules
without stating which one takes precedence in case of conflict.
When the Trust composes the future boilerplate, they'll need
to consider this.

    Brian

> > and that fixing the problem is presumably a
> > work item of the IPR WG. Is this indeed an active work item? (The
> > xml2rfc workaround -- removing submissionType='independent' in the XML
> > source -- seems to defeat the purpose of flagging the submission type.)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > [1]
> > http://drakken.dbc.mtview.ca.us/pipermail/xml2rfc/2007-August/003155.html
> >
> >
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