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

[Don Armstrong <don at donarmstrong.com>]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> If someone comes to the IETF and makes contributions that their
> employer later objects to, that is not the IETF's problem, because
> the IETF has the right to make derivative works in any case.

This assumes that the IETF has been properly granted permission from
the entity who is (or entities who are) legally able to do so. If that
hasn't been done, then the IETF doesn't have the right to make
derivative works from it, full stop.

Providing written documentation of this and waivers from employers is
part and parcel of doing due diligence when the utility and
derivability of a standard is at stake.[1]


Don Armstrong

1: The FSF has long dealt with this issue for copyrights which are
assigned to the FSF; I don't see why the IETF can't follow the same
sort of practices for incomming rights.
-- 
"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the    
right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."
 -- Bach 

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