Re: Copyrights and the IRTF and Independent Stream

[Scott Brim <sbrim at cisco.com>]

OK, there's at least one way of looking at it that works.  

Excerpts from Joel M. Halpern on Sun, Aug 16, 2009 11:14:07AM -0400:
> 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?