Re: Copyright statements in drafts

[sob at harvard.edu (Scott Bradner)]

> I do now understand there is no requirment to use the "All Rights 
> Reserved" however, what is the effect when a draft authors do use it?

that should be over ridden by RFC 3667 since RFC 3667 is the IETF copyright 
ruleset

> Does he/she then sign all his rights to ISOC, in contradiction to the 
> statement in RFC 3667?

no - at most the "all rights reserved" would be seen as applying to the
instance of the document that is the ID or RFC - that does not
limit the rights that the author(s) retain when they offer a document
to the IETF - its less confusing to use the new text but I do not
think it makes any legal difference

> And why is it that the RFCs that is currently published contains both 
> statements?

history & miscommunication - I'll try to fix the latter

Scott