Re: Copyrights and the IRTF and Independent Stream

["Joel M. Halpern" <jmh at joelhalpern.com>]

I believe that the simple answer is "yes", as long as one understands 
what is happening.
There is an IRTF RFC.  It grants all rights to anyone to make derivative 
works, modify, etc.
Then, one of the derivative works is the IETF I-D and eventual RFC. 
Even if there is no change in text (almost unheard of), it is a 
different work, and that work has the more restrictive rights for 
derivation.
Yes, we would have to understand that anyone could go back to the IRTF 
RFC and do anything they want with that text.  Those rights can not (and 
should not) be revoked.

Yours,
Joel

Scott Brim wrote:
> What happens when an IRTF document becomes polished enough that it is
> adopted by the IETF and put on standards track?  If the text is
> already published under one rights regime, can the IETF then apply
> more restrictive conditions?
>
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