Re: Copyright statements in drafts

[Magnus Westerlund <magnus.westerlund at ericsson.com>]

Hi Sam,

Sam Hartman wrote:
> 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.

I agree with this, an WG document need the copyright statement. However 
as I understand it is sufficient with this one:

      "Copyright (C) The Internet Society (year).  This document is
      subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP
      78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their
      rights."

However my question was in relation to any draft author if he also 
includes the following statement in the "Status of this Memo" section:

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (year).  All Rights Reserved.

In view they seem to be a bit contradicting. The lower one states all 
rights reserved, while the from RFC 3667 does not give all rights to 
ISOC. Thus I would like a clarification on this.

Thanks

Magnus Westerlund

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