Re: Copyright statements in drafts

[Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu>]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Hoffman / VPNC <paul.hoffman at vpnc.org> writes:

    Paul> At 11:23 AM +0200 5/28/04, Magnus Westerlund wrote:
    >> What about these first page copyright notice. Which of the
    >> following rules is the correct one for a internet draft?  -
    >> MUST have the statement - MUST NOT have the statement - MAY
    >> have the statement

    Paul> It's a MAY. Authors are welcome to use the boilerplate
    Paul> statement and thereby assign the copyright of the Internet
    Paul> Draft to ISOC, but they don't have to. The main reason why
    Paul> they might not want to (and why I don't include any
    Paul> copyright statement on my Internet Drafts) is that, if the
    Paul> document doesn't become an RFC, the copyright remains where
    Paul> it should: with the author.

As a WG chair I'd want tho copyright assigned at the time an item
becomes a WG document.  If you do anything else, then you may find
yourself in a position where you want to take text from a document but
cannot do so.

Copyright should go along with change control.