Dear Russ,
the authors can either be individuals or WGs. The practice to quote
authors for WG documents while they are a cooperative work seems a
wrong practice to me. Copyrights' period take into consideration the
date of the death of the last contributor. The name of all the
members of a WG should be noted if the rights are not exclusively
with the IETF. When a group of individuals wants to propose a
document its members known the numerus clausus before (whatever the
number). The missing possibility is for an entity to introduce a
collective Draft. Only IAN, IESG, etc.can introduce a Draft under
their name. IMHO WG2 and R&D organisations should too.
jfc
At 18:37 24/05/2006, Russ Housley wrote:
I am concerned that the current RFC Editor practice that limits the
number of authors is in conflict with the IETF IPR policies. The
RFC Editor currently limits the author count to five people. Recent
IPR WG discussions make it clear to me that authors retain
significant copyright.
In one of the working groups in the Security Area, there is a
document with six authors on it. I asked the WG chairs to reduce
the author count in the hope of avoiding a problem down the
road. At that time, I was not aware of the copyright. Now, I think
I gave the WG Chairs inappropriate directions.
The IESG and the whole Internet Community needs clear direction on
this issue. I suspect that the IPR WG will be a part of the process
to resolve it. Also, the Tech Spec document, which is currently in
Last Call, many need to include a requirement that the RFC Editor
explicitly acknowledge copyright holders in some fashion.
Russ
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