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

[Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>]

Black_David at emc.com writes:

>> > The IETF works with individual contributors, full stop.
>> 
>> Good, maybe the BCP 78 legalese about some contributors 
>> "representing an organization" can be removed or trimmed
>> or clarified.
>
> Complete removal is not an option, courtesy of "work for hire":
> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire

Right, but the text shouldn't say that organizations grant the IETF some
rights.  I believe section 5.1 of -incoming currently says that.

/Simon

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