Stupid question: How are "the rights to represent the Sponsor" as codified in BCP78 and BCP79...

["TS Glassey" <tglassey at earthlink.net>]

Harald
Dumb question number #1 about the logic of the existing IP conveyance model
in BCP78... The question is: How if an individual represents a Sponsor's
legal interests in the IETF would that Sponsor not be liable for "any and
all" (I love that phrase) damages that said sponsored person caused to
another in the IETF's standards process? I know this is unpleasant since  no
one ever does anything nasty in the IETF but the world is not a nice place.

I ask  this since BCP78 forces the participants to agree by their continued
participation that they do formally hold in a legal sense an "Enduring Power
of Attorney" which if true ***ALSO*** makes that Sponsor totally liable for
that person's actions in any effort one would think since those two facets
cannot be separated as far as I know.

As I noted once before the participation process in the IETF needs a Hold
Harmless addition now that BCP formally represents that a third parties
rights are controlled by a second parties submission of the third party's IP
to the IETF.

Todd Glassey


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