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

[Don Armstrong <don at donarmstrong.com>]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, TS Glassey wrote:
> I agree Don - What I am thinking is that at the very minimum ALL
> submissions which come in from an SMTP type submission channel need
> to be digitally signed with a publicly resolvable C.A. That way at
> least the IETF could claim that it relied on 'a strong eSign
> control' to assure proper paperless-transfer of the IP rights.

This doesn't really gain us anything, as getting a CA and signing a
submission is trivial. The important thing is that the copyright
holders of works that are submitted for inclusion in IETF processes
properly licence the IETF. License forms signed by the submitter and
employer if applicable are the general method of doing this that I've
seen.[1]


Don Armstrong

1: It's what almost every scientific journal as well as what the FSF
requires; signing and faxing in (or attaching a signed, scanned pdf
of) a form isn't terribly difficult, and takes us to the point of
being ok, short of actual willfull misrepresentation of the nature of
the submitted work.
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