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Re: -Incoming issues in need of resolution
My opinions:
On 2007-10-03 19:47, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
Two approaches have been suggested:
1) Insert a "read-only" license into -incoming, granting essentially the
same rights as is granted to any other reader, but linking them to the
submission agreement rather than to an IETF Trust grant decision:
I think this gets us back into the quagmire of trying
to draft precise legal text to be frozen in a BCP. I believe
it's much wiser to state the intent to give authors and
contributors adequate rights to use their own material,
and leave the Trust to define *and* maintain the appropriate
legal text. Therefore,
2) Granting a special license to produce derivative works from the text
of the finished RFC, subject only to the limitation that the result
can't be presented as if it was an RFC.
I prefer this, with the Trust being enjoined to maintain
the principle that the RFC Editor is an agent of the authors
and of the community.
<snip>
The other issue, raised by Jorge Contreras, concerns the split of the
work of this WG into two documents (-incoming and -outgoing); if we
start having language in the -incoming document granting some outgoing
rights, the separation becomes rather blurred from his perspective.
The opposite viewpoint is that the two documents have distinct audiences
and distinct status in the IETF process, and that it therefore makes no
sense to merge them; such a merge would also be inconsistent with the
charter of the WG.
I think we're too far down the road to merge them. Let's maintain
course and get them finished, please. This has gone on far too
long already.
Regards
Brian Carpenter
University of Auckland
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