Re: -Incoming issues in need of resolution

[Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no> writes:

> The rights granted in this proposed text are, BTW, identical to those
> that the IETF grants to all readers in -outgoing

The rights are the same, but the recipient of the rights is different.
The proposed text would give co-authors rights via -incoming.
Introducing co-authors as a different class of contributor seems like a
new idea, and I think it is a bad idea since it causes complexity.

> the difference is that since these form part of the rules under which
> the submitters licensed their contribution, it would be impossible to
> restrict those rights at a later stage. Not that I think there's any
> chance of such a restriction being imposed.

Then why is there a push to add this to -incoming at all?

/Simon

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