Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Lloyd,
Just to review the actual facts one more time:
The IAB is responsible for the RFC-Editor function under its charter, RFC
2850.
At the IAB's request, the ISOC sub-contracted the RFC-Editor function to ISI.
At the IETF's request (RFC 2026), the ISOC holds copyright on RFCs to protect
them
against unauthorized modification. It has to be the ISOC, because the IETF
itself is not incorporated.
Does this copyright predate RFC2026?
(seems that, at some point in the past, there was no overarching
authority who held copyright other than the authors ??)
Joe