Re: [Ltru] Issue Tracker

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

Hi -

As co-chair...

> From: "Phillips, Addison" <addison at amazon.com>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>; "LTRU Working Group" <ltru at ietf.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:57 AM
> Subject: RE: [Ltru] Issue Tracker
>
> I have no objection to omitting the 6.c.iii from 4645bis (or including it,
> if Doug prefers). Should Mark and I file anything related to 4645bis?

The "Contributor Non-Exclusive License" at http://trustee.ietf.org/licenses.html
is still undergoing revision.  If you like, you could fill it out and send
it in when it becomes possible to do so.  In the meantime, if you and
Mark made clear on this list your intent to do so, that should be sufficient
to make life easier for Doug. (BTW, I also intend to sign the "Contributor
Non-Exclusive License" when it becomes available.)

In Doug's case, if he is comfortable that the relevant contributors
are willing to grant the same rights for their pre-RFC 5378
contributions as they now grant under the "NOTE WELL" currently in
effect, (that's what signing the license accomplishes) then he doesn't
need to do the 6.c.iii.  The only reason I encourage doing 6.c.iii for
*4646bis* is that there's a much larger set of contributors whose text
may have made it verbatim into the document, and it's not immediately clear
whether all of them have agreed / will agree to the RFC 5378 terms for
their pre-RFC 5378 contributions.

> After all, I suppose one could obliquely consider draft-langtag
> (way back at the start of this project) to be the source of 4645
> (neither of us has ever edited the document, please note).

In this particular case, since the issue is copyright, there is
a concern only if significant text has been copied verbatim.
If the authors of that earlier work can assure Doug that they
agree to the 5378 terms, then there is no need for 6.c.iii,
at least as far as those portions of the text are concerned.

I hope this makes things clearer.  (I also hope that I've understood
the issues correctly.  Martin, please speak up if I've mis-stated
anything.)

Randy